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Names: Milligan, Ian, 1983– author.

Title: Averting the digital dark age : how archivists, librarians, and technologists built the web a memory / Ian Milligan.

Description: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2024010568 | ISBN 9781421450131 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781421450148 (ebook) | ISBN 9781421450537 (ebook open access)

Subjects: LCSH: Web archiving—History. | Digital libraries—History.

Classification: LCC Z701.3.W43 M55 2024 | DDC 025.042—dc23/eng/20240705

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