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Your internet data is rotting

  • Written by Paul Royster, Coordinator of Scholarly Communications, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Your internet data is rottingThe internet is growing, but old information continues to disappear daily.wk1003mike/shutterstock.com

Many MySpace users were dismayed to discover earlier this year that the social media platform lost 50 million files uploaded between 2003 and 2015.

The failure of MySpace to care for and preserve its users’ content should serve as a reminder...

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