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The Internet Archive is in danger


More than 900 billion webpages are preserved on The Wayback Machine, a history of humanity online. Now, copyright lawsuits could wipe it out.

Unlike 2021, when Trump supporters violently attacked police officers, defecated in the halls of Congress and forced the halt of the peaceful certification of a free and fair election. Now the problem here is that of course in the 21st century we use the internet as our history book, notebooks, bookmarks, primary source, our entire storage and filing system to document the story of ourselves and our nation. CHAKRABARTI: Yeah, I definitely accept the argument that the first ever web page that I made back in my college days with the little like dancing gifs of Bart Simpson, that doesn't necessarily need preservation.

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