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Why not? Our capacity for storage has been increasing exponentially such that yesterday’s data is basically of negligible size compared to what we are producing today. There’s no reason to delete history.


So no one is keeping you from doing so. No reason to hope some one will do it.


Indeed! That's why I regularly donate to the Internet Archive. :-)


Which is a very laudable response! With the caveat that pack-ratting everything is going to be an endless treadmill. I certainly favor preservation but at some point you do have to consider what you're saving and why.




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