10 years ago this may have been a silly question to ask. But today the internet is a larger part of our lives than the television. We use it to see what's going on throughout the international community through various news applications and websites. It helps us to stay in touch with friends who are thousands of miles away. We listen to the radio and watch television on it. It helps us to find new entertainment, new charities to help, and allows us access to more information than ever before in the history of humanity.
Through the countless videos, pictures, statuses, and ideas posted to the many social networks, we as a race have successfully uploaded the human experience. And whether it's pictures of cats dressed like Hitler, or Mackelmore's new music video that supports gay marriage, we can use the internet to feel the entire range of human emotion.
So if we use the internet to get from point A to point B, and it's such a pivotal part of our every day lives, what happens if it all goes away? Some people worry about an information apocalypse, nothing short of the fourth Die Hard movie. While it seems laughable and highly unlikely (I mean if anyone ever did threaten to destroy all digital information, Bruce Willis would swoop in and save the day), it's better to be safe than sorry right?
In San Francisco, California stands the headquarters of The Internet Archive. Funded by Brewster Kahle, this nonprofit's goal is to collect as much of the internet as possible and store it on their servers. They have backed up millions of books and billions of web pages. The service is open for anyone to use.
And this isn't the only service out there! Do a quick search, and a bunch of them turn up! So there's no need to fret about the loss of an internet.
