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As someone who's worked on the wayback machine and responsible for uploading around 300 TB of data into it, I think it should be. From all the well researched
by noufalibrahim 9y ago
As someone who's worked on the wayback machine and responsible for uploading around 300 TB of data into it, I think it should be. From all the well researched, immensely valuable sites and page to all the badly photoshopped memes and ugliness that simmers in it. I like to think of as the collective external brain of humanity.
The value depends on the people who are trying to dig up information about their ancestors to find out how they managed to live in those primitive times.
Historians could always use more information from multiple sources to piece together accurate pictures of times past and the reasons why people did what they did. We know that since we have dedicated people trying to reconstruct our pasts. We'll have to live with what survived from what our ancestors left us but there's no reason to limit generations of future scientists to such scant and badly pieced together material.