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What is Web Arching 

Web archiving is “…the process of collecting, preserving and providing, enduring access to web content (Society of American Archivist).” Since the 1990s both institutions and individuals started to shift information that would have been disseminated physically to disseminating it online. The average website only lasts for 2 years and 7 months, and that does not consider changes that happen to the site (Beis, 2021). The ephemerality of websites is why they need to be actively preserved. Web archives are, and will continue to be, vital for anyone interested in studying any events, culture, or people from the 1990s to the current year and beyond. 

Access Web Archives: https://archive-it.org/organizations/997 

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