The 5th Wave Internet Archive [exclusive] Info

The Internet Archive (the Wayback Machine) is a cathedral. It is one of the most important non-profit efforts in human history. But it was built for the 2nd and 3rd Waves. It captures static HTML pages. It cannot capture the experience of the 4th Wave.

Links turn to 404. YouTube videos become “private.” Whole subreddits vanish overnight. Geocities was bulldozed. Myspace lost every photo uploaded before 2015. The early web—the raw, amateur, hopeful web—is disintegrating. the 5th wave internet archive