Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....
  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Yes of course

    But every single scrap of information in Wikipedia exists somewhere else

    Its value is twofold and exclusively these two when you boil everything down:

    • It is enough information to answer any question that has an empirically known answer
    • It is available to anyone on the planet with ease and without cost

    There’s very little else we’ve created that hits both of those, but the second is by far the most important.