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The Internet Archive is now hosting Aruba’s history
Internet Archive broadens its digital preservation efforts.
According to Wired, the project was “set in motion” in 2018 when Stacy Argondizzo, a digital archivist whose family regularly vacations in Aruba, began considering helping the country preserve its physical archives, which she worried could be destroyed by extreme weather. The project was reportedly complicated, as it involved scanning “stacks of dusty tomes and fragile decades-old newspapers” and collecting documents that were scattered around the world (owing to the nation’s colonial history) in countries like The Netherlands, Spain, and the United States, all on a “shoestring” budget. More than half of that is the Wayback Machine, its collection of archived websites that even includes things like the bad AOL homepages from both myself and The Verge ’s Alex Cranz (I’m not linking these, as they’re our version of mutually assured destruction).
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