Until the Internet Archive, there was no way to go back. The internet was the quintessentially transitory medium. And yet, as it becomes more important in forming and reforming society, it becomes more and more important to maintain in some historical form. It's just bizarre to think we have scads of archives of newspapers from tiny towns around the world, yet there is but one copy of the Internet--the one kept by the Internet Archive.
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