there's a reason the library of congress just literally prints out the internet and stores it away in boxes

very solid chance the early digital age will be a gigantic black hole of records for future historians

Back in college, which admittedly was a decade and change ago, almost all the papers I needed to read I had to ILL. And I'd get back scanned copies of physical journals, where you could sometimes see the librarian's hand in the image.

I can't imagine all the old stacks are digital now, either

It’s going to be a long time before we get the full scope of what occurred, and it’s probably even worse than what has been reported so far