Choosing formats. Library of Congress Digital Preservation
population is online,
this artistic, commercial and social history
is being wiped from the
face of the earth. Unless
we act now to archive
our recent digital past,
we are in real danger
of losing the building
blocks of the web that
have so shaped modern culture.”1
In 100 years the internet will look vastly
different from today.
Technology will change;
HTML 5 will not be the
standard internet language. Media companies of today buy and
sell technologies rapidly - formats evolve
with each sale. 200
years from now it’s
possible that the internet could be replaced
with something entirely
new: today we see the
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