Why do you feel that it was the job of "corporations" to preserve and archive of every page forever?
In my country, all physical books and magazines which are published must be submitted to the government in X copies. The government then keeps an archive.
With webpages, the problem of obtaining X copies never existed. Why couldn't the government have archived webpages like it always did with books?
In my country, all physical books and magazines which are published must be submitted to the government in X copies. The government then keeps an archive.
With webpages, the problem of obtaining X copies never existed. Why couldn't the government have archived webpages like it always did with books?