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British Library To Archive One Billion UK Websites

Posted by timothy on from the why-not-one-hundred-billion? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The British Library is to begin archiving the entire UK web, including one billion pages from 4.8 million websites, blogs, forums and social media sites. The process will take five months, with the aim of presenting a more complete picture of news events for future generations to read and learn from."

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  1. Great plan there smart guys! by Narcocide · · Score: -1, Redundant

    And then what after that? Print it all out on paper and mail it back to the people in weekly editions for a small subscription fee?