{"id":2082,"date":"2019-04-13T21:53:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T21:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2019-04-13T21:53:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T21:53:48","slug":"the-internet-may-not-be-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2019\/04\/13\/the-internet-may-not-be-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet may not be forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/memegenerator.net\/img\/instances\/62637525\/nothing-lasts-forever-false-posts-on-the-internet-last-forever.jpg\" alt=\"Nothing lasts forever? FALSE: Posts on the Internet last forever.\" width=\"219\" height=\"154\" \/>You may have heard warnings to b<\/span><span>e careful what you post on the Internet, because the Internet <\/span><span>is<\/span><span> forever.\u00a0 But <\/span><span>is<\/span><span> it really?\u00a0 The BBC recently <\/span><span>looked into<\/span><span> the question of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20190401-why-theres-so-little-left-of-the-early-internet\">why there\u2019s so little left of the early internet <\/a><\/span><span>a<\/span><span>nd found that <\/span><span>even today there is too much data being put online for anyone to archive and preserve all of it. <\/span><span>While some people may have good reason to worry whether something might live forever online, other people and organizations are worried about what is being lost.\u00a0 The BBC article highlights several examples of large web sites losing or deleting older content. In some cases, the only way to see even a portion of the lost content is on places that archive the web. <\/span><span>One of the earliest attempts to preserve web pages came from Brewster Kahle, who founded the Internet Archive. The<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/web\/\"> Internet Archive\u2019s Way Back Machine<\/a> <\/span><span>provides a <\/span><span>view <\/span><span>some of the older content.\u00a0 Other <\/span><span>organizations,<\/span><span> such as the Library of Congress\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/programs\/web-archiving\/about-this-program\/\">web archiving program<\/a><\/span><span>,<\/span> <span>archive selected websites.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Deciding what to preserve and actually preserving it is an <\/span><span>age old<\/span><span> problem. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/apr\/10\/extraordinary-500-year-old-library-catalogue-reveals-books-lost-to-time-libro-de-los-epitomes\">recent discovery <\/a><\/span><span>of a what is essentially 16<\/span><span>th<\/span><span> century annotated bibliography of over 15,000 books obtained by a son of Christopher Columbus highlights how ephemeral information can be.\u00a0 About 75% of the books on the bibliography have been lost to history.\u00a0 The newly discovered annotations should be invaluable in that they can give historians a better glimpse into what types of books were being read 500 years ago.\u00a0 In the future, the early history of the internet may only consist of what a handful of people and organizations chose to preserve.\u00a0 If you are lucky, that won\u2019t include the embarrassing photos that<a href=\"https:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/08\/dont-post-about-me-on-social-media-children-say\/\"> your parents posted of you on Facebook<\/a>.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard warnings to be careful what you post on the Internet, because the Internet is forever.\u00a0 But is it really?\u00a0 The BBC recently looked into the question of why there\u2019s so little left of the early internet <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2019\/04\/13\/the-internet-may-not-be-forever\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The Internet may not be forever<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[408,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}