Geographic access restrictions and uneven archive coverage |

Dead Internet Theory: Web servers decide what to send based on where a request comes from, and crawlers are requests too. That leaves archives crawling from a single country with a lopsided record of the web, which national archives and regional captures only partly repair.

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By Switchboard Tech Services · Originally published 2026-09-05

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