Form-driven databases that cannot be preserved by following

Dead Internet Theory: Records that live behind search forms have no links for crawlers to follow, so most web archives overlook them. This article explains how form-driven databases get lost — the Haddon catalogue is the documented case — and why exports and static pages preserve them where crawls cannot.

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By Switchboard Tech Services · Originally published 2026-09-06

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