For as much as Digital Textuality discusses the concept of the “Internet as a Digital Archive of Human Culture,” it is important to remember that people are already archiving the Internet. The best example is the Internet Archive, which allows users to view past versions of websites.
The fact that an archive is archiving the Internet does not contradict the idea of the Internet itself being an archive. For example, any archive that exists within a larger library is, itself, a sort of nested archive. The Internet Archive is interesting, however, because it is an archive that exists within the archive it is archiving — the Internet Archive is a website. The Internet Archive underscores Derrida’s pronunciation that “The archivization [process] produces as much as it records the event.”
