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The Internet Archive is an early effort to preserve knowledge for the future.

The internet’s organization enabled it to grow almost without limit, making the internet’s content that many people depend on ephemeral and often unreliable.

Brewster Kahle, a technologist who founded the Internet Archive called the “Wayback Machine,” seeks to preserve and provide access to defunct web pages. It “scraped” these pages by preserving their content and tracking down the links they provide. In the spirit of the early internet designers, he isn’t in it for the money. The Wayback Machine seeks to preserve as much content as possible before it vanishes.

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The internet was designed to incorporate decentralization

Its designers were oriented toward academic issues and lacked the funding to build the web with a top-down, centralized structure.

They weren’t looking to monetize the internet.

They had no interest in fashioning a big, for-profit company.

They insis...

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Link rot and content drift are common internet problems

Even old, out-of-date, rarely used books are somewhere on the shelves in a traditional library but that’s not necessarily the case on the internet. Publishers or other businesses may close, rendering their digital content inaccessible.

When the United States government tem...

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E-books can be remotely deleted and even changed.

Many books or texts that originate as digital are also ephemeral. These texts may have not a physical counterpart. Readers aren’t buying the text itself, they’re purchasing a subscription. If the subscription expires, the reader will no longer have access to the book or article.

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The design does not ensure the preservation of content.

The internet started as an improvement on traditional libraries. Web pages could link to content anywhere else on the internet, which meant that content outside a certain web page would still be at users' fingertips. And people, including bad actors, can alter or delete the conte...

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