[banzai]

The idea that important information may exist on the Internet for a short time & then disappear has been taken seriously.

I seem to remember reading something on BBC News website in the last month that either the British Library or the British Museum was building a permanent archive of web pages which they felt offered future historians an insight into present day British culture.

Of course they only save what they like, so if they were working in the seventies the Sex Pistols. Clash etc. would have been consigned to the bin, but at least its a start.