The quickly disappearing web

Internet CultureThe internet is forever. But also, it isn’t. What happens to our culture when websites start to vanish at random? Michelle Rohn / The Verge

Every few days, I open my inbox to an email from someone asking after an old article of mine that they can’t find. They’re graduate students, activists, teachers setting up their syllabus, researchers, fellow journalists, or simply people with a frequently revisited bookmark, not understanding why a link suddenly goes nowhere. They’re people who searched the internet and found references, but not the article itself, and are trying to track an idea down to its source. They’re readers trying to understand the throughlines of

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