The Internet Age that vanished

July 1st, 2009

Random Mumblings – “There are no yellowing, faded newspaper Web sites. Except for the WayBack machine — the best we have, but admittedly spotty — the whole dawn of Internet newspapers from the mid-1990s on could vanish, never to appear in a yard sale or a treasure proffered up on the PBS’s Antiques Roadshow. A database crash, a decision to shut down some old servers, or even some spirited housecleaning, and, blink, days, months, years of an electronic newspaper could be gone” (via)

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