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One would hope that all of these hardcopy texts at least get digitized to be preserved on Internet Archive (and preferably as many more backups as possible).
by Apocryphon 2y ago
One would hope that all of these hardcopy texts at least get digitized to be preserved on Internet Archive (and preferably as many more backups as possible).
- AlbertCory 2y agomostly they are. newspapers.com has 1000's of papers (in image form, not text, unfortunately) going back to the 1800's.
- JKCalhoun 2y agoToo bad it requires a subscription. I have scanned old science books that I treasured as a kid and uploaded them to archive.org.
- AlbertCory 2y agoTrue. Maybe someday, they'll decide "This isn't profitable enough!" and sell to Internet Archive.
- ghaff 2y agoHonestly, a ton of stuff is digitally preserved. Far more than happened historically. Sure a lot of things will still end up in the bit bucket but we're still never going to preserve everything and it's probably just as well that we don't.
- everybodyknows 2y agoAnother source, for academic writing, is jstor.org. A lot of the older stuff is free with an account. It presents as if you need a current educational affiliation, but not so for a basic free account.