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Episode: How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot
Description: The web has a problem: huge chunks of it keep going offline. The web isn’t static, parts of it sometimes just… vanish.But it’s not all grim. The Internet Archive has a massive mission to identify and back up our online world into a vast digital library. In 2001, it launched the Wayback Machine, an interface that lets anyone call up snapshots of sites and look at how they used to be and what they used to say at a given moment in time. Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, joins Decoder this w...