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The Internet Is Failing The Website Preservation Test (archive.ph)

submitted 1 year ago by Gork@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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This is something that keeps me worried at night. Unlike other historical artefacts like pottery, vellum writing, or stone tablets, information on the Internet can just blink into nonexistence when the server hosting it goes offline. This makes it difficult for future anthropologists who want to study our history and document the different Internet epochs. For my part, I always try to send any news article I see to an archival site (like archive.ph) to help collectively preserve our present so it can still be seen by others in the future.

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[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why stuff like the internet archive exist: to try and preserve this content. The problem is that governments are trying to shut down the internet archive...

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Source?

[–] realChem@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably referencing this lawsuit that the internet archive lost recently, related to the online library they launched during the pandemic.