大象传媒

The internet not only makes it possible to preserve memories, objects and ideas from the past in digital format, but also means these then become accessible to all. We meet Meg who is having her personal memories of the Second World War, which would otherwise have died with her, recorded for a heritage website. The Imperial War Museum in London is investing large sums of money to get their collections online, and discovering that there are unforeseen benefits to electronic archives. But with emails, digital photos and blogs replacing letters, photo albums and diaries, what are the implications for future historians? We visit an innocuous trailer-sized storage facility in California, which is the internet archive.