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Tag results: Archival

Pricing Out Your Legacy

The company behind WordPress decided to offer a service that promises to pay for your web hosting for a century, long after you die. Sticker shock aside, I don’t hate the idea.

Pretty Darn Fascinating

The story of the PDF, the portable document format that’s become one of the internet’s defining information formats. It’ll be with us after we’re long gone.

Make Digital Preservation Easier

If major companies think it’s too hard or costly to leave up user-generated content, perhaps we need to change the motivations.

Dead on Archival

Considering the challenges that face shuttered newspapers with decades or even centuries of material to preserve.

Down With Snippet View

The limitations of Google Books can be seen in the way that it handles obscure trade publications. Everyone who made that old magazine? Probably dead.

Honey, I Shrunk The Page

Microfiche (or microfilm, depending on how you roll) is a library mainstay, but its history is wild, according to this note I got from a carrier pigeon.
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