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</html><description>Stephen Dowling, writing for the BBC, has an article about the transient nature of the Internet and how so much of what was posted in the first ten years just isn&#x2019;t there anymore. If Brewster Kahle hadn&#x2019;t set up the Internet Archive and started saving things &#x2013; without waiting for anyone&#x2019;s permission &#x2013; we&#x2019;d have [&hellip;]</description></oembed>
