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Old newspapers don't (generally) disappear completely, they just get scarcer and harder to access. I would expect major newspapers to have complete microfilm/mi
by NoGravitas 10y ago
Old newspapers don't (generally) disappear completely, they just get scarcer and harder to access. I would expect major newspapers to have complete microfilm/microfiche archives of their entire 20th century runs. I would think major libraries would, too. So getting access to a particular newspaper for an arbitrary date generally involves, worst case, a special trip to the offices of the newspaper or a library in the same city as it.
What would be needed to do something comparable for online papers? Keep them online, but de-list them from search engines? Take them offline, but keep them in offline storage at newspaper offices and libraries?
- panzagl 10y agoSo basically make this information only available to the privileged?
- lloyd-christmas 10y agoI suffer from the "privilege" of uniqueness. I'm the only person in the world with my first/last combination. There are 12 living people with my last name, none of us share a first name. A few pages into a google search of me returns high school newspaper clippings from 15-20 years ago. An employer doing a background check on me gets my high jump results from 1999 within 5 minutes. Who's privileged, the 100 people who share the same name, myself, or the person trying to find information about one of those 101 people? I would hope you wouldn't need a golden key to try to track down information, but it would be nice to have my history equally (in)accessible as someone else's.