It&#x27;s generally unfortunate when major batches of content--whether MP3s or an online magazine--end up inaccessible to the future. And I find it a bit worrisome that a relatively small non-profit plays such an outsized role in archiving the Internet.<p>That said, a huge number of works that people create have always ended up in the trash, thrown out, or archived only in a few obscure places. What makes it a bit frustrating with digital is that it&#x27;s relatively practical to save so much more--if perhaps not necessarily everything that&#x27;s even been posted to a public site--but few really good mechanisms (or funding) to do so.