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I'm ten percent into an implementation of a 'personal web archive', mostly as a fun side-project. I just wonder, if historical data gets more interesting as the

• Tichy 14y ago
  The other day it occurred to me that the digital age might result in some serious data loss. I was wondering about historic prices for cars. Not sure how you would have gone about it in previous times, but I suppose you could find old catalogs, adverts in newspapers and stuff life that. But what if vendors only advertise prices on their web sites? Those sites with old prices will be all gone once new prices are set up, same with the advertisements. Not even sure if archives can help - with some algorithmically created content it might be impossible to index it all. Just one example - there are surely more. I used to think digital data would be easier to preserve for the future, but now I am not so sure anymore. Not even mentioning Facebook, which presumably can not be archived because of the walled garden thing.