Wednesday, January 23, 2019

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I had to read this twice before I could be sure it wasn't some kind of weird mix-up with 2085. We already established both that things like this exist and that Randall thinks their existence is some kind of rebuke to Trump voters-- why does the Internet Archive deserve to be singled out especially? How "reliant" are "we" on the Internet Archive, anyway? The original Space Jam website still exists, after all. Have you been significantly impoverished by the loss of shitty op-eds and LiveJournal pages from 2001? Are future generations likely to be? At some point, even the holy cenobites of the Internet Archive will have to start making decisions about what to preserve, just like every other archive.

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