[ih] Museum-quality archive for this list?

Joe Touch touch at strayalpha.com
Mon Nov 15 20:16:21 PST 2021


> On Nov 15, 2021, at 8:02 PM, Jorge Amodio <jmamodio at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there anywhere a "virtual Internet Museum" where all materials about the history and evolution of the Internet are collected and archived ?

Not really. Archive.org may aspire to be that, eventually, but it has no endowment yet, so doesn’t qualify as truly archival-capable IMO. 

And IRL even real, endowed museums don’t take all donations. It takes resources to maintain them - even digital ones. But rot, backup format conversion, and user format conversions all have real costs. 

And museums come and go. The computer history museum is in its third incarnation. 

Joe



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