We tend to think the internet is permanent, but recent events remind us that our digital record is fragile & being shaped in real time.
Legal pressure, platform restrictions, and limits on tools like the Wayback Machine are already affecting what can be preserved and accessed.
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The internet isnโt just an endless archive anymore. ๐
Journalist Philip Bump argues that preserving journalism and digital history is essential for accountability, research, and understanding what happened online before it disappears.
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VANISHING CULTURE is out now!
From Internet Archive, this book looks at what is disappearing online.
๐ Websites vanish
๐๏ธ News archives go offline
๐ฎ Games become unplayable
๐ผ Personal media breaks & becomes unreadable
It asks what it means when the record of ourselves starts to disappear ๐ณ๏ธ
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Nothing is "meant to be thrown away." Not the MTV News archive. Not Gawker. Not the penny press of the 1800s. ๐ณ๏ธ
Maria Bustillos argues that keeping the receipts is about more than nostalgia. It's about the raw material of history.
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75% of 1980s video games tracked by the LGBTQ Video Game Archive are preserved and accessible in some form.
But thatโs not the whole story.
25% are still at risk or unavailable.
Preservation isnโt automatic.
It takes deliberate effort to keep cultural history accessible.
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The web is disappearing ๐ณ๏ธ
According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible.
But thatโs not the whole story.
In a new study published in Internet Archive's book, VANISHING CULTURE, data scientists working with the Wayback Machine have found:
16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine.
56% are preserved before they disappear.
Preservation is the remedy for cultural loss.
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When MTV News shut down, it felt like decades of culture vanished overnight ๐ณ๏ธ
But over 470,000 pages were already preserved.
That history didnโt disappear.
It was archived.
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