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Internet history is fragile. This archive is making sure it doesn’t disappear

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Original upload date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT

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What’s online doesn’t necessarily last forever. Content on the Internet is revised and deleted all the time. Hyperlinks “rot,” and with them goes history, lost in space. With that in mind, Brewster Ka...
hle set out to develop the Internet Archive, a digital library with the mission of preserving all the information on the World Wide Web, for all who wish to explore. Jeffrey Brown reports.