If a Pulitzer-finalist 34-part series of investigative journalism can vanish from the web, anything can.
The web, as it appears at any one moment, is a phantasmagoria. It’s not a place in any reliable sense of the word. It is not a repository. It is not a library. It is a constantly changing patchwork of perpetual nowness.
You can’t count on the web, okay? It’s unstable. You have to know this. …
Der ganze Artikel unter http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/raiders-of-the-lost-web/409210/