#  Lepore, Jill - The Cobweb Can the Internet be archived? (Article) 

 





January 26, 2015

 

 

##    ![newyorker-logo.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9191/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/history_winter_reading_list/files/newyorker-logo.jpg?itok=Mb55Kk-q) 

 



##  [The Cobweb](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.newyorker.com_magazine_2015_01_26_cobweb&d=CwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=XvykKlJOEz0ueqfuAxlojtsSooSmqLuGho0H034msOA&m=NmBO6WtP52ZCXl7LWt2SwnJYqZGBNwZefiDwwj7PIR4&s=-SzvVhJK9RrGbd1qOErfwD-i1lwK1xAK4DmGPLdY8mo&e=)

###  Can the Internet be archived?

 By [Jill Lepore](http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/jill-lepore)

Sort    

  **Jill Lepore**  
**David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History,  
Harvard College Professor**

 Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at *The New Yorker.* A prize-winning professor, she teaches classes in evidence, historical methods, humanistic inquiry, and American history. Much of her scholarship explores absences and asymmetries in the historical record, with a particular emphasis on the histories and technologies of evidence and of privacy. As a wide-ranging and prolific essayist, Lepore writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. She is the author of many award-winning books and is currently writing a history of the United States. [Read more](https://scholar.harvard.edu/jlepore/jlepore/biocv).

 

 





 

 

 



 

 

 Share on:- [     Facebook ](#)
- [     Twitter ](#)
- [     Linkedin ](#)