Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Online Archives

I thought this was an interesting passage to read. Not only was it talking about different kinds of things you can find on the internet but it  basically discussed how nothing is private on the internet which is true. I enjoyed the part that said Anyone with Internet connection has access to an international treasure trove of public and private databases. I think it is bizarre that people have diaries on the internet because of that statement I just said. It is nearly impossible to keep anything on the internet private these days no matter how hard you try. Online Archives can be very useful for school but a lot of stuff online that you post is way to private to be public which is a scary thing to think about. More and more archival material is available to the public every day. The thing about that is, nothing gets completely erased from the archives of internet databases either. Weird. 

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