StrangerThan -> RE: 1984: Do we have the technology for "truth?" (9/14/2011 4:04:17 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or FR Someone mention archiving the internet ? Funny, I notice some webpages that don't allow rightclick, it took me a minute to figure out how to do it. That was years ago. So not long ago I upgraded my browser. In the old browser when I went to save a page it would sometimes say "This page may not sve correctly" but it went ahead and saved it. Well in this "better" browser I went to save a page from the county recorder's office about a property on the east side. Looked good until I tried to biew the stored page. the page I tried to save had the data on the property, the browsert however saved the search page. I tried it a few times with the same results. If I hadn't checked, I would not have the page. Since I did and found our that it wouldn't do it I did the next best thing, I pasted it into Microsoft Word. Displays it pretty good :-) T^T The Way Back Machine project already does some archiving. How useful it is, is another story. Search abilities are limited, and pretty much, you have to have a link to follow. Having said that, ALL data is archived somewhere. A firm with no disaster recovery policy these days is usually one that is mostly name and run from someone's garage. Even so, if they are attached to the internet, the data they have exposed to the world is archived for them. The question isn't whether or not we have the technology. We do or at the very least, are close to being able to. The question is more based around capital and political will/ability. As well, the initial process would not be flawless, but would mature on-going to where most of what you see or read electronically could be monitored and altered. Of course, there will always be people who figure out workarounds.
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