How much of the Internet ought to be preserved?

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Gfycat

More recently, gfycat, which hosted a whole damn lot of gifs used for content or reactions, seemingly got shut down. Snapchat, which acquired it some time ago, seems to no longer have interest in it.

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Archive.org

But this begs the question, how much of the Internet ought to be preserved? It used to be that the entirety of Twitter was stored by the Library of Congress. This is no longer the case, twits are now selected for storage. With the death of Flash, a good portion of internet culture turned into little more than archeology. The Internet Archive does a great amount of work to this end, archiving websites on demand, as of now they boast about saving the history of over 808 billion websites. That's 808.000.000.000 websites. I consider this to be an outstandingly noble cause and would recommend anyone who is considering donating to a good cause to give them a shot.

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