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Internet history is fragile. This archive is making sure it doesn't disappear
Brown, Jeffrey http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/internet-history-fragile-archive-making-sure-doesnt-disappear/
Publisher: PBS Newshour
Date Written: 02/01/2017
Year Published: 2017
Resource Type: Article
A report on the Internet Archive (archive.org) including an interview with its founder, Brewster Kahle.
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A 2013 Harvard study, for example, found that half the hyperlinks in Supreme Court cases, today's equivalent of footnotes, are broken, a phenomena known as link rot. Government agencies remove documents, and companies fail, and with them the sites they host. Think of GeoCities, Yahoo! Video, and, more recently, the news site Gawker.
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The Internet Archive's home is a strange world: several generations of media and technology, stained glass windows and church pews, and almost eerie rows of sculptures of the many people who've worked on the project. Its motto is universal access to all knowledge, and Kahle’s aspirations could hardly reach higher.
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