What would be lost if the Internet Archive were no more?

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Brewster Khale, the founder of Internet Archive, about the attack by hackers that put the archive offline for days — and what may have happened if it had succeeded.

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Who preserves what happens on the internet? Well, one answer can be found in an old church in San Francisco, which is home to the Internet Archive. That’s a nonprofit with a bigger digital collection than the Library of Congress. The Archive holds a record of billions of web pages on its servers. This month, it was attacked by

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