So I was poking around the Internet Archive’s WayBackMachine today, and found out it does a terrible job of indexing blogs. Split posts (”read more”) are frequently dropped, as are comments. I think it just doesn’t do well with very dynamic content.

I’m afraid of what this might mean for the future. I’ve always assumed that we’ll have at least a crappy, slow, hard-to-access record of all of this information. It looks like it’s still possible for much of it to be lost to the sands of time.

I say we should have better internet archives. There should be a lot of wealthy people now who have an interest in making sure this stuff stays around forever. It could at least make for an interesting Google Labs project.