Our past on the internet is disappearing before we can make it history.

A lot of the worry today is about our digital data being stored indefinitely whether we want it or not. But what of the data that is disappearing before we can archive it? Writing in Lapham's Quarterly, Tanner Howard reflects on the transience of our digital archives.

Lapham’s Quarterly goes into the past to help us make sense of the present. It dives into history, finding the roots of education, science, literary, political, and economic thinking. 

Please, my digital archive. It’s very sick

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