Of course you know that all the information that ever went onto the internet never goes away, it just keeps traveling around on all those cables, your computer modem just has to know how to reach out and grab the right information as the info goes zipping by at the speed of light.
Originally Posted by Mr Peabody
The internet is the world's greatest copy machine, but the world's least consistent librarian. More seriously, the IA's crawlers only make backups at certain intervals. Something that comes and goes between will not be added to it. It, like Google and Google's cache, will ignore content excluded by properly formatted robot.txt files. The truth is that, while you can never be sure something will ever die once it's live on the internet, it's a crapshoot whether most of it will in fact survive. Data doesn't persist in the conduits themselves, only on the storage media that duplicate it. Entropy is chomping at the heals not only of data storage, but of links and search results. Beneath the salient sheen of content being actively kept alive are catacombs of broken hyperlinks, defunct standards, darknets and corrupted data.