We know social media companies won’t be around forever but we’re only starting to understand the lifespan of the memories we’ve entrusted in them. He then founded the Internet Archive, also inspired by the library that burnt to the ground and took with it more than 500 years of books, artifacts and global knowledge. These servers hold the primary copy of the Internet Archive. The Internet Archive tries to capture everything (the good and bad), with bots regularly crawling websites and the public submitting links and capturing fleeting posts. Perhaps someday they can use those fortunes to right wrongs inside themselves or apologize, like Alfred Nobel and big social media companies.

Source: National Post May 22, 2019 12:52 UTC