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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.

Mandatory app installation for tasks formerly available on the web | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: Facebook's 2016 push from mobile-web messaging to the Messenger app shows what changes when a browser task is turned into an installation requirement.