Categories

Ads

Latest

Search

Archives

Join

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Stats

Where Government Web Sites Go to Die

Posted in: Browsers,Technology News by admin on September 19, 2009


It was a historian’s nightmare. During the change from the Clinton to the Bush administration, Web sites affiliated with the Clinton White House went dark, and an unknown number of online documents and files were forever lost. Such Internet deaths inspired the Cyber Cemetery at the University of North Texas, which preserves government Web sites in their final form. The Cyber Cemetery archives sites when commissions or panels expire, allowing the online work of defunct government bodies to live on and remain accessible to the public.

Popularity: 6% [?]

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a comment