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Article: The Wayback Machine: The Web's Archive. (On the Net).(Alexa Internet, Internet Archive)(Column)
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- March 1, 2002
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now that the Internet is established in the public information space, it has become a new publishing medium. The Web in particular has proved an incredible repository of all kinds of information content. But it has also proven to be a very changeable medium, noticeably lacking in permanence. Particularly during the past couple of years, as the number of new dot corn failures has risen, previously existing Web sites have ceased operations and their information content has vanished into the Web's past.
With print publications, the libraries and archives of the world have made a major effort to collect and preserve print items. But the advent of the Web was so ...