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Originally Posted by tomsem
The point of the article is to justify the existence of Internet Archive, and to point out that it requires ongoing work to maintain.
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IA lost quite a bit of data around 10+ years ago because of undetected data corruption (in RAID systems). That served as a wakeup call for them.
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If we experience some global collapse of civilization (through our own doing or from aliens or gamma ray bursts), to the point where the current data technologies cannot be sustained, then maybe we'll wish we'd written everything down on dumb, archive quality paper or clay tablets, securely stored somewhere, so we can wait for things to settle out enough to rebuild from the hard won intellectual work of our predecessors.
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Important chunks of that are Imaginary Property that will become lost art.