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On the Net: Where Web Sites Go to Die
AP ^ | 11/21/06 | JAKE COYLE

Posted on 11/22/2006 2:29:45 PM PST by kiriath_jearim

When a Web site dies, it goes to Web heaven -- Archive.org.

The Internet generally has complete disregard for keeping records or charting its past. Once a Web site it gone, it seems to disappear into the digital ether.

But with its "Wayback Machine,"http://www.Archive.org seeks to bring posterity to the Web by archiving Web sites with the help of Alexa Internet, a search service that records Web traffic and features a "crawler" tool to capture pages.

A message on Archive.org says that with the large amount of public records and information moving online, Internet libraries have become necessary to maintain the public's "right to remember": "The Internet Archive is working to prevent the Internet -- a new medium with major historical significance -- and other `born-digital' materials from disappearing into the past."

The nonprofit site, which has logged more than 55 billion Web pages, was founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996 and collaborates with the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian. It doesn't index sites that are password-protected or blocked to the public.

Though the amount of text recorded by Archive.org is greater than the collection of the Library of Congress, the site also stores live music (especially Grateful Dead shows), old video and movies that have passed into public domain, like 1922's "Nosferatu" and the 1949 noir "D.O.A."

The legal admissibility in court of old sites saved by Archive.org is an interesting legal battle likely to emerge more frequently.

Earlier this year, a health care company named Healthcare Advocates Inc. sued Archive.org after it lost a 2003 case that turned on the evidence of Healthcare Advocates' old Web site (saved on Archive.org).

Archive.org isn't the only site trying to save the ever-changing Web. Wikipedia.com, which constantly regurgitates itself with user-inputted data, is now being watched by wikidumper.blogsot.com.

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1 posted on 11/22/2006 2:29:48 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
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To: kiriath_jearim

How long before DU winds up there?


2 posted on 11/22/2006 2:32:04 PM PST by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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To: kiriath_jearim
Earlier this year, a health care company named Healthcare Advocates Inc. sued Archive.org after it lost a 2003 case that turned on the evidence of Healthcare Advocates' old Web site (saved on Archive.org).

In other words, Healthcare Advocates Inc. attempted to conceal material evidence, and got caught.

3 posted on 11/22/2006 2:32:22 PM PST by BeHoldAPaleHorse (Republicans are told to court "the base," which translates to Arabic as "al-Qaeda.")
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To: JRios1968

yes i thind that du is bulit of a house of cards


4 posted on 11/22/2006 2:32:57 PM PST by al baby (Hi mom)
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To: al baby

Stuning!


5 posted on 11/22/2006 2:33:41 PM PST by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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To: kiriath_jearim
....like "screamin'" Dean, D.U.... :D
...paging Al Gore.
6 posted on 11/22/2006 2:33:54 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Just b/c your paranoid; Doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you. :^)
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To: JRios1968

he he ha ha the yokes on me


7 posted on 11/22/2006 2:34:54 PM PST by al baby (Hi mom)
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To: al baby

DU will be here a long time as we have whackos and RINOs running Congress.


8 posted on 11/22/2006 2:36:18 PM PST by Sam Ketcham (Amnesty means vote dilution, increased taxes to bring them UP to the Poverty Level!)
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To: Sam Ketcham

Heck...we have 'em in here too.... :)


9 posted on 11/22/2006 2:45:17 PM PST by gb63
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To: kiriath_jearim

"wikidumper.blogsot.com"

We know who the wikiDUmpers are, but what is the blogsot? Is this where all the "posting while drunk" idiocy goes for posterity?


10 posted on 11/22/2006 2:47:24 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

"wikidumper.blogsot.com"
That is where we send the errors of our writs....
Kind of like the Catholic purgatory. Gone for good, but not forgotten...


11 posted on 11/22/2006 2:53:05 PM PST by gb63
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To: kiriath_jearim
FR is already there.
So is the Drudge Report.
I often visit there for the old time radio shows.
One of the best is Suspense!
It's gold mine of great stuff!
12 posted on 11/22/2006 3:01:49 PM PST by MaryFromMichigan
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To: kiriath_jearim

bump for later


13 posted on 11/22/2006 3:12:12 PM PST by bobbyd (Flyer, I love and miss you...Lords best my FRiend)
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To: gb63

Like fleas and illegal immigrants.

Either we are equal or we are not. Good people ought to be armed where they will, with wits and guns. NRA KMA


14 posted on 11/22/2006 3:17:37 PM PST by dhuffman@awod.com (The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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To: MaryFromMichigan

ping for later


15 posted on 11/22/2006 4:10:21 PM PST by packrat35 (guest worker/day worker=SlaveMart)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Later self-ping. Thanks for posting.


16 posted on 11/22/2006 5:34:20 PM PST by Tinian
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