Digital information itself has all kinds of advantages. It can be read by
machines, sorted and analyzed in massive quantities, and disseminated
instantaneously. “Except when it goes, it really goes,” said Jason Scott,
an archivist and historian for the Internet Archive. “It’s *gone* gone. A
piece of paper can burn and you can still kind of get something from it.
With a hard drive or a URL, when it’s gone, there is just zero recourse.”
There are exceptions. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has a trove of
cached web pages going back to 1996. Scott and his colleagues are saving
tens of petabytes of data, chasing an ideal that doubles as their motto:
Universal Access to All Knowledge.

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