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How to Link Websites Without the Eventual Broken Links
Have you ever been browsing an older website, only to find yourself face-to-face with a 404 error when you click on a link to a long-abandoned site? What about searching up an old bookmarked article only to find that it’s now stuck behind a paywall?
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Why Digital Storage Formats Are So Risky
“The internet is forever.” So goes a saying regarding the impossibility of removing material — such as stolen photographs — permanently from the web. Yet paradoxically the vast and growing digital sphere faces enormous losses.
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How To Scan 80km Of Historical Documents Into An Online Archive
Tracking the lightning quick development of modern cities is easy with Google Street View, but a big new project aims to provide context for the past 1000 years of urban evolution in Venice, Italy. The Venice Time Machine will digitise and catalogue a staggering amount of historical documents — a combined 80km worth of shelves!…
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The HTTP Archive Tracks HTTP Requests For Sites Over Time
For the data nerds out there, the HTTP Archive is like The Internet Archive except instead of capturing just the pages of a website, it tracks the load sizes, times and attributes of websites on the internet.