but Van de Sompel’s work involves adding to it.
Once again it appears that the final product is incomplete and needs more fine tuning.
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- Apr 2021
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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This is what our records say. This is how we received this information, from which apparent Web site, at this IP address.’ But to actually say that this happened in the past is something that we can’t say, in an ontological way.” Nevertheless, screenshots from Web archives have held up in court
It seems that this is a nonissue as there is sufficient proof to hold up in a court of law.
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Each unit has a yellow and a green light, glowing steadily: power indicators. Then, there are blue lights, flickering.
Something, something, the green light from The Great Gatsby.
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. You can’t search it the way you can search the Web, because it’s too big and what’s in there isn’t sorted, or indexed, or catalogued in any of the many ways in which a paper archive is organized; it’s not ordered in any way at all, except by URL and by date.
If Google can find a way to sort, index, and catalogue the billions of webpages online then there must be a way for the Internet Archive to do the same. However, they most likely do not have the staff or budget to carryout such a daunting task.
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The plan to found a global Internet archive proved unworkable, partly because national laws relating to legal deposit, copyright, and privacy are impossible to reconcile, but also because Europeans tend to be suspicious of American organizations based in Silicon Valley ingesting their cultural inheritance.
Illien is not alone with this sentiment. BYU professor Patrick Panos writes in agreement that "although there is a general expectation that this electronically stored information will last forever, the truth is that much of this information is quickly lost."
The cost of keeping a webpage online is too much for most web owners. If a business goes out of business or if a college course finishes, there is no reason to keep the website online. These sites are typically only online for ~3 months which is an extremely abrupt time period considering there are only one major player who are archiving webpages.
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They provide national libraries with a form of legal protection unavailable to the Library of Congress
This follows in suit with Safiya Noble's writing that the EU has much stricter privacy laws than the US.
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One reason the Library of Congress has a very small Web-page collection, compared with the Internet Archive, is that the Library of Congress generally does not collect a Web page without asking, or, at least, giving notice.
Is there an ethical dilemma here? What happens if a website is archived and the owner does not know? I understand that the owner can go out of their way to tell the archive to pull down their site, however, the burden should not be on the owner but rather the archive.
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and other stuff
It's apparent that the internet archive has websites cataloged ranging from the educational websites they just listed to something as random as a kickstarter page.
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four hundred and thirty billion Web pages
This number is now up to over 531 billion pages. To put this in perspective there are around 1.2 billion webpages currently online.
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A petabyte is a million gigabytes. In the lobby of the Internet Archive, you can get a free bumper sticker that says “10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes Archived.”
It's (way) over...
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older and more concerned, too.
Is this a real issue? While the information no longer be readily available online it is most likely still archived. This prompts discussions of what information big tech companies still keeps even after the webpages are taken offline. There is a grey area both in the United States legislative and Google's TOS in what they are allowed to disclose the information they keep and the actual content that they archive. What's worse: webpages disappearing or permanent webpages that can negatively impact users?
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“I was trying to get it to go. Preservation was not a priority. But we’re getting older now.”
This shortcoming has grave effects in the internet today. While not as impactful, this reminds me of the USB cable and how it is not reservable. Ajay Bhatt, the creator of the cable, says that he "blew it" by not making the cable reversible. An internet where each page was preserved would be vastly different as people would have their content permanently stored online. However, as Safiya Noble points out, having a sort of social forgetfulness is beneficial for society. This is because the harmful content online disproportionally effect marginalized groups (often reinforcing stereotypes and bringing up criminal search results).
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“hyper-text
Hypertext is a software system/set of programming instructions that allows text from one document or resource displayed on a screen to be linked to other documents or resources. This made up the groundwork for the modern internet as Berners Lee believed that interlinked documents were the ideal way to navigate the information and resources of the internet.
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As Licklider saw it, books were good at displaying information but bad at storing, organizing, and retrieving it. “We should be prepared to reject the schema of the physical book itself,” he argued, and to reject “the printed page as a long-term storage device.” The goal of the project was to imagine what libraries would be like in the year 2000. Licklider envisioned a library in which computers would replace books and form a “network in which every element of the fund of knowledge is connected to every other element.”
Licklider saw the same issues in books as Tim Berners Lee did in the early stages of Enquire. Both visionaries imagined a decentralized "network" where all nodes are "connected to every other element" but if one node is destroyed the information is still preserved. Berners Lee realized that computers are great at cataloging and finding items quickly with UDI (now known as URL).
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ARPA
Seeing ARPANET after thinking I wouldn't have to study it anymore this semester
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Mr. Micawber
Micawber is a fiction character in Charles Dickens's 1850 novel David Copperfield. He is identified with the idea that "something will turn up."
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the burning of the Library of Alexandria
If only ancient Egypt had access to the Wayback Machine. However, it's clear that all databases from libraries to the internet need a backup.
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content drift
"drift" circa 200 million years ago:
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more than 70% of the URLs within the Harvard Law Review and other journals, and 50% of the URLs within United States Supreme Court opinions, do not link to the originally cited information.”
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link rot
When hyperlinks no longer re-direct to their original destination after a given period of time
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The Web dwells in a never-ending present. It is—elementally—ethereal, ephemeral, unstable, and unreliable.
As Lafrance writes: "You can't count on the web, okay? It’s unstable. You have to know this." Nothing is certain on the internet as a page you just viewed can vanish with just one refresh of the page.
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We are going to rescue your shit
If Jason Scott was from Philly:
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but a lot of people do believe that if it’s on the Web it will stay on the Web. Chances are, though, that it actually won’t.
This coincides with Adrienne Lafrance's writing. Lafrance uses a Pulitzer Prize winning article that has vanished as an example to demonstrate this point. She writes that "If a sprawling Pulitzer Prize-nominated feature in one of the nation’s oldest newspapers can disappear from the web, anything can."
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No one believes any longer, if anyone ever did, that “if it’s on the Web it must be true,
I would argue against this viewpoint. I believe that there are still quite a few groups of individuals that still believe that most of what they view on the internet is true. This is apparent by the widespread QAnon 5G conspiracies as some people are gullible enough to believe anything they see on the internet.
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Strelkov’s VKontakte post about downing a plane
https://web.archive.org/web/20140717152222/http://vk.com/strelkov_info
The archived page is still available on the internet today. In a world where fake news is difficult to spot this is a rare situation where the page was abruptly deleted.
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Anatol Shmelev
Shmelev's area of specialization is the Russian Civil War, 1917-22.
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(An Antonov 26 is a Soviet-built military cargo plane.)
The Antonov 26 was a twin-engined turboprop civilian and military transport aircraft, designed and produced in the Soviet Union from 1969 to 1986. It was used by the Soviet, Pakistani, and Vietnamese Air force.
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