Misdirected love notes. While supplies last. Take all those homespun Web pages out there.
People assume that their home pages disappear once they pull the plug.
Every two months, it scoops up the entire Web and stores the results on its virtual shelves. It has preserved my expired site, and it may well have yours. Bulletin board messages live on far after the threads peter out. The messages we send to the Internet's 33,000 newsgroups often fall off the edge of Usenet after a week or so, but the postings live on in databases like Deja News and the Internet Archive. Mailing lists, where people toss off casual correspondences as if writing to a close-knit group of friends, are often archived for all the world to see.