[ih] Museum-quality archive for this list?

[Jorge Amodio]

I see, also if you want “museum grade” it will require people with very good clue  (paid+volunteers) to act as curators.

-Jorge

> On Nov 15, 2021, at 10:16 PM, Joe Touch <touch at strayalpha.com> wrote:
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>> On Nov 15, 2021, at 8:02 PM, Jorge Amodio <jmamodio at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Is there anywhere a "virtual Internet Museum" where all materials about the history and evolution of the Internet are collected and archived ?
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> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> And museums come and go. The computer history museum is in its third incarnation. 
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> Joe