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Is Archive.org Able To Keep Up?
Occassionally, I check out Archive.org to see what websites looked like a few years ago… But recently, it seems like the Archive isn’t really archiving new material. They say they’re “just a bit behind” in indexing — and that the data that has been donated to them via Alexa has a stipulation that only data older than 6 months can be displayed in the Archive.
But with Twitter/Youtube/Facebook and all sorts of “real-time” internet data being created at an incredible pace… is it even possible for Archive.org to keep up with its archive? The US Library of Congress is already archiving all public Tweets, but it seems like the efforts to archive the internet zeitgeist is becoming a nearly impossible task.
