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About 15 years ago, I won a phone in a contest. Last week I tried to find information about it, but I couldn't. No AI, nor Google could find anything the contest I won it in. When people say "the internet is forever" that can certainly be true, but it isn't for everything.

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That reminds me - my wife had a friend who was killed by a shark (no joke). There were newspaper articles, but Google has completely forgotten about this and the newspapers are often behind a paywall, changed their URL's or simply the article vanished from those sites as well, which certainly doesn't help.

I wonder how libraries, who have traditionally been the ones to archive the news, have kept up with everything moving online and now being subscription-holed. Hopefully it's not just the Internet Archive doing this, which has its own problems.

I bet the intelligence agencies are keeping track, though. The likes of CIA and Mossad, at the very least.

My library system has an aggressive book weeding policy where books that haven't circulated enough in about 2 years get binned. the excuse is other libraries have a copy available for inter library loan, but of course, those libraries have to weed as well.

so no they are not archiving their own core books let alone periodicals

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