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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
New Project In Scramble To Save Vanishing Internet Links
From Times Online:
The Internet Archive is fighting to preserve shortened web links created by free online services that may be running out of money.
What if, the next time you went on the internet, you clicked on a link and nothing happened?
What if billions of internet links all stopped working at once?
As 2010 approaches, this is exactly the problem that the internet is facing. So great is the concern that the Internet Archive in the United States has already begun what some people are calling one of the most important repair jobs in the web’s history.
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