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Internet history destroyed by greed?

Most people reading this column will be familiar with The Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine.

The Internet Archive (TIA) has been capturing and storing snapshots of the world wide web and its content for decades, creating an invaluable museum of this material for future generations to research and enjoy.

Unlike physical artifacts, digital material can be completely erased with the flick of a switch, the crash of a hard drive of simply a failure to pay a domain name registration.

Without TIA, much of what was once on the internet would have already been lost forever.

Some might say that we have a responsibility to protect and treasure our history. Others seem more interested in simply making money at huge cost to any historical archive.

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I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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