Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved; CNN, November 16, 2025

 Hadas Gold , CNN; Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved

"The Wayback Machine, a tool used by millions every day, has proven critical for academics and journalists searching for historical information on what corporations, people and governments have published online in the past, long after their websites have been updated or changed.

For many, the Wayback Machine is like a living history of the internet, and it just logged its trillionth page last month.

Archiving the web is more important and more challenging than ever before. The White House in January ordered vast amounts of government webpages to be taken down. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is blurring the line between what’s real and what’s artificially generated — in some ways replacing the need to visit websites entirely. And more of the internet is now hidden behind paywalls or tucked in conversations with AI chatbots.

It’s the Internet Archive’s job to figure out how to preserve it all."

Portland author has collected his dream library of books – and most of them don’t exist; Portland Press Herald, June 20, 2025

 Skyler Cummings, Portland Press Herald ; Portland author has collected his dream library of books – and most of them don’t exist

Hemingway’s missing novel. Alice’s backwards-printed book in "Through the Looking Glass." Sylvia Plath’s never-finished autobiography. Reid Byers owns copies of all those "invisible" books that bibliophiles wish were real.

[Kip Currier: Portland Press Herald is another example of a newspaper with an iron-clad paywall that doesn't provide access to even one sentence from this article. Just the headlines. 

If you're trying to attract new readers and subscribers to a communication medium that's hemorrhaging people who see its value, you might want to offer a glimpse of what your product looks and sounds like.]

The Backstory: Paywalls and the ethics of charging for news content; The San Diego Union-Tribune, February 26, 2022

FOR SUBSCRIBERS, The San Diego Union-Tribune; The Backstory: Paywalls and the ethics of charging for news content

[Kip Currier: Not a joke...This story -- 

The Backstory: Paywalls and the ethics of charging for news content --

is only available to subscribers.

Hey, San Diego Union-Tribune, you might want to think about making a piece about the ethics of paywalls accessible to non-subscribers too. You might actually persuade some people to your viewpoint and generate some worthwhile conversation about the pros and cons of paywalls. 

Bad editorial and marketing decisions, as subscriptions to many newspapers continue to decrease and local news coverage is increasingly endangered.]