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podcasts. Anyone remember what was on the internet last week? Let alone 20 years ago?

Yeah, be kind of nice to have a record of that somewhere. From American Public Media,

this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty-Carrino.

Today we're re-airing a conversation on what is still a big, unanswered question as the internet

has become the de facto historical record for so much of our lives. Where does the internet

get archived? There are some projects like the internet archive to preserve some content online.

I asked Kale Harris, a professor and director of the Marion Library at the University of Dayton if

what's being done is enough. I would say no because it's a mix of both a technical

challenges to archiving this massive quantity, but also I think it's about the human side of

things and getting people to care about why we would want to preserve that stuff in the first place.

And I think there's this very widespread misconception that like, well, if it's on the internet,

it's there forever. And so there's not the understanding that no, it's not necessarily there forever

and someone or something has to save it if you want it to be there forever.

Can you think of any sort of glaring examples of something not being there forever on the internet

that kind of you wish were still there? I think part of it is even though sometimes a website

might still be there, but websites often have dynamic content. So even though the website itself

might still be there, like say a news website that's constantly changing with the latest headlines,

even though the site itself might still be there, maybe the kind of flash in the pan news story isn't.

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