Once in a while, an online jokester will quip that I should photograph a defunct website or failing social media empire. It always reminds me how glad I am that the Internet Archive does the equivalent. Our online spaces may not be physical locations like the buildings I photograph, but that doesn't make them less worthy of documentation and preservation.
quotingBrewster Kahle of the Internet Archive makes the case for web preservation in The Atlantic. 🌐
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In The Internet Needs A Memory, Kahle explains why blocking the Wayback Machine won’t stop AI. It will only make the public record harder to preserve.
Read it 👉 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/blocking-internet-archive-will-not-stop-ai/689065/?gift=1ga2TvL-DbuHDQIcYF7oR15xFrw9Q69up_lZIfXDr8Y
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