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Why focus solely on the text Web? The article mentions archaeological value of the data, and how trash dumps are more important than great books. On the Inter
by MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
Why focus solely on the text Web? The article mentions archaeological value of the data, and how trash dumps are more important than great books. On the Internet, I think that translates to archiving things like World of Warcraft and Punch the Monkey. It's not highbrow, but it gives a good idea of how we're spending our time.
- aristus 18y agoThat's a very good point, but you have to start somewhere. Text is the easiest thing to preserve and packs a lot of information into a small amount of bytes.