Archive Coverage

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Geographic access restrictions and uneven archive coverage | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: Web servers decide what to send based on where a request comes from, and crawlers are requests too. That leaves archives crawling from a single country with a lopsided record of the web, which national archives and regional captures only partly repair.

Measuring web loss without confusing absence from an archive with nonexistence | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: A missing archive capture proves that an archive lacks a usable copy, not that the page never existed or that it disappeared at a particular moment.