Saving Our Digital Heritage

-How does the situation today compare with what happened at the library of Alexandria?
The destruction of the Library of Alexandria was a very terrible loss of knowledge in all of civilization. The situation of today has to do a lot of what happened to the library. Things that people don't use or need anymore are thrown away or vanish without a trace. An estimated 44 percent of Web sites that existed in 1998 vanished without a trace within just one year. Programs that we use to use on old computers from 20 or 30 years ago don't even work on the newer computers.The gadgets that inform our lives -- cellphones, computers, iPods, DVDs, memory cards -- are filled with digital content. In about 10 or 20 years from now they will probably be lost forever because of the new technology that keep coming out every year, so it is our job to preserve them so that they don't get destroyed like the Library of Alexandria did.
I think that the government should invest money in this project because that past stuff is our history. To be able to create new technology and thing we had to have found a way to use that stuff from the past and make it better.