>The web never forgets, and that's the basic problem Saying "the web never forgets" is very, very wrong if people interpret it to mean that you can count on an

>The web never forgets, and that's the basic problem Saying "the web never forgets" is very, very wrong if people interpret it to mean that you can count on anything that happened being preserved. There's two aspects to that, things that disappear in the sense they aren't easily searchable (or at all), and things that get revised, such that you think they are available, but history has effectively been changed. A virtue of physical books is that they can't easily be changed without a trace. Archive.org is something, but very far from comprehensive.