How an Archive of the Internet Could Change History – The New York Times

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How an Archive of the Internet Could Change History

Preserving online media is a growing logistical and ethical question. But doing so may completely transform the way we remember the past.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/magazine/how-an-archive-of-the-internet-could-change-history.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Building an archive has always required asking a couple of simple but thorny questions: What will we save and how? Whose stories are the most important and why?