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BBC – The internet’s memory problem

Released On: 12 Mar 2025 Available for over a year.  We’re replacing BBC Sounds outside the UK and bringing you BBC.com, a seamless way to read, watch, and listen – all in one place. Visit bbc.com/audio or need more help?The internet is where much of our modern cultural, societal and political history is stored, but as researchers are discovering, the internet has a big memory problem. Without businesses paying to keep servers and archives up, more and more of our history online is disappearing forever. We take a look at what this so called ‘link rot’ means for our collective understanding.

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