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The UK’s National Archives has announced that it will be saving YouTube videos and tweets for posterity, to make social media a part of Blighty’s official history. Youtube Video The Archives will start collecting Twitter posts and YouTube vids from today from UK central government departments and other official social media, …

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  1. TRT Silver badge

    Are they making...

    a time crapsule?

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  2. frank ly
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    Will they be archiving the YouTube comments?

    So future social historians can gain an insight into the mindset of our time.

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    1. Elmer Phud
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      Re: Will they be archiving the YouTube comments?

      I would reply in a form similar to YouTube comments but I guess it would be one of those rare occasions of the mods stomping on a post.

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  3. sjsmoto

    "This was no small task but we rose to the challenge"

    Unlike, say, archive.org.

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  4. Mark 85

    Funding?

    Did someone find a few million under the sofa cushion and decide to spend it on this? The money is coming from somewhere.

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