Archiving the Internet: How Historians Can Help #SaveTheWeb

[PeterK]

Imagine you’re a historian of the 21st century living and working in the 23rd century. You have an archive containing millions of documents related to an event (say, the Arab Spring), but you cannot read them—all you see is a number. It’s the ID number of a tweet, but only the number was saved, and the code no longer exists to display the content.

http://bit.ly/292KGiT
http://bit.ly/292KGiT+

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