Alyssa Goodman edited Archival Value.md  over 9 years ago

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# Archival Value  Perhaps the main benefit of paper is in its value as an archival medium. Acid-free paper can last hundreds if not thousands of years, and the same can definitely *not* be said of digital media at present.  can be archived on paper. Services like the [Internet Archive](https://archive.org) and [Memento](http://mementoweb.org) are improving year by year, but it is not yet clear when (if ever) electronic archiving will match physical archiving for long-term storage of information.