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E-World: Archivists save record of Internet's response to the Sept. 11 attacks
AP ^ | 3-11-02 | THOMAS E. WEBER, The Wall Street Journal

Posted on 03/11/2002 7:15:05 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:39:51 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

But we still have copies of many of those materials, thanks to archivists who have made it their mission to preserve digital records the same way libraries safeguard newspapers and letters. Web pages, message-board postings and even e-mail messages from Sept. 11 all live on in archived duplicates, ready for study by future historians.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911; archivists; september11th

1 posted on 03/11/2002 7:15:05 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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