The 21st century is characterized by rapid musical innovation, from streaming thousands of songs online with a click of a button to storing albums on the cloud. Within all this progress, though, one element hasn’t advanced like the others: longevity. In comparison to hieroglyphs, which have endured nearly 5,00 years, music storage is ephemeral, beginning to deteriorate as early as five years on a hard …
A non-profit library supporting more than 400 billion archived web pages, the Internet Archive turns 25 this year. While new content appears every second, much of the internet also continues to disappear through shut downs, updates, transformations and changing culture. Thus, the archive’s Wayback Machine has become an even more important tool. It’s not only about design preservation, but also fundamental to protecting the history of …
One year ago today the world lost a great talent. Now the same group of people who run Elvis Presley’s Graceland are archiving Prince’s possessions at his Paisley Park mansion/studio/museum. Already, 7,000+ artifacts have been archived, and that’s believed to be less than five percent of the building’s pieces. From shoes to jewelry, sketchbooks and guitars, the items aren’t meant to tell Prince’s full life …
