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The Internet’s Keepers?

Wayback Machine Director Mark Graham outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive.

by Nathan Matisse via Ars Technica on October 7, 2018

Server for the Internet Archive.

Can the Internet be Archived?

The Web dwells in a never-ending present. The Wayback Machine aims to preserve its past.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on January 26, 2015

Visitors browse newspaper front pages from the day after the 9/11 terror attacks at the Newseum in Washington, D,C., in 2016. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

When History Is Lost in the Ether

Digital archiving is shoddy and incomplete, and it will hamper the ability of future generations to understand the current era.

by Christian Schneider via The Dispatch on April 6, 2022

Picture of a computer.

The Internet Is Rotting

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.

by Jonathan Zittrain via The Atlantic on June 30, 2021

collage of disappeared webpages

The Internet Isn't Forever

When an online news outlet goes out of business, its archives can disappear as well. The new battle over journalism’s digital legacy.

by Maria Bustillos via Columbia Journalism Review on February 20, 2018

Digital Queers: How Computers Transformed LGBTQ Life in the United States

Digital communications allowed transgender individuals and organizations the digital tools to organize and connect at a previously impossible scale and speed.

by Avery Dame-Griff via Process: A Blog for American History on June 29, 2023

A boy surfs on a computer keyboard surrounded by details from earlier internet eras.

You Probably Don’t Remember the Internet

How do we memorialize life online when it’s constantly disappearing?

by Kaitlyn Tiffany via The Atlantic on March 22, 2021

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