digital preservation

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Preserving The Internet... and Everything Else

In Preserving Our Digital Pre-History I nominated Jason Scott to be our generation’s digital historian in residence. It looks like a few people must have agreed with me, because in March 2011, he officially became an archivist at the Internet Archive. Jason recently invited me to visit the Internet

By Jeff Atwood ·
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history

Preserving Our Digital Pre-History

I’ve spent a significant part of my life online. Not just on the internet, I mean, but on modems and early, primitive online communities. Today’s internet is everything we couldn’t have possibly dared to imagine twenty-five years ago, but there is a real risk of these early,

By Jeff Atwood ·
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