Aydın Tiryaki (October 15, 2006)

Now, every day, millions of new pages are being opened for use on the Internet by amateurs and professionals alike. Old pages go completely into the trash, and new pages take their place. The Internet is losing its memory.

Who among us still has the page they prepared five years ago? When we add new information to our page, we delete the old. When we look at the masthead pages of many organizations, it is impossible to find information from five years ago, such as the names of executives. Because we write the new information on the same page, the old ones disappear completely.

In 100 years, will a researcher trying to find out what was on the Internet in the year 2000 find anything?

Our newspapers, which present a significant amount of information on the Internet every day, are currently keeping their archives. If one day this newspaper closes down, how long will those archives remain accessible? If one day a stingy manager comes to the Internet publishing department of this newspaper and sacrifices the archives for the sake of freeing up new disk space, won’t all that information be a pity?

In fact, the solution is very simple. A copy of every book published in our country is sent to the National Library. This is a legal requirement. The National Library is responsible for keeping these books forever.

Why shouldn’t the Internet pages published every day also be archived by a unit to be established within the National Library?

The backup of every site that will one day end its Internet publishing should also be kept in this archive.

Let’s not write our articles on ice. Knowing that an article we write today can be read 100 years from now will compel us to write more carefully and leave lasting works.

Ankara, October 15, 2006

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