> As of last fall, its Wayback Machine held over 450 billion pages in 25 petabytes of data. This would represent .0003% of the total internet. > Universities,

> As of last fall, its Wayback Machine held over 450 billion pages in 25 petabytes of data. This would represent .0003% of the total internet. > Universities, governments and scientific societies are struggling to preserve scientific data in a hodgepodge of archives, such as the U.K.‘s Digital Preservation Coalition, MetaArchive, or the now-disbanded collaborative Digital Preservation Network. Like any conservation work, the benefits are incredibly easy to ignore - until something goes awry / stops getting funding and suddenly it's too late. Consequently it's easy to have a myopic view of the issue. These organizations are doing very important work, and I hope that internet users and governments don't take them for granted.