How many times have you searched the Internet for the perfect information and when you think you’ve found the site you look at it is gone.  Happens pretty frequently doesn’t it.  Of course, you can look at the ‘cached’ version and you might visit Archive.org’s “WayBackMachine”.  But daily Websites drop off never to be seen again.

David Smith discusses this in an article, Websites ‘must be saved for history’, and offers good examples including the transition from one American President to another, the Olympics and more.

Read on… http://www.guardian.co.uk