On: The Tragedy of Google Books (2017)

[the_af]

The Wayback machine is such an invaluable tool.

I've used it to track down when wording on a site (for someday relevant to my job) changed, for example.

[nanna → the_af]

I imagine there would be enough institutional support for the Way Back Machine from the likes of Wikipedia at least that even if the IA did go down the WBM would be carved off and kept alive. Effectively I think the IA will be broken up.