Websites must be saved for posterity, so says Lynne Bridley, the chief executive of the British Library. If not, historians will be faced with yawning gaps of information. Take George Bush, for example, late of the White House, all traces of whom have been vanished from the Presidential website.

 To prevent a digital 'Dark Age', Bridley urges us to save as much of the ephemera of the internet as possible. The question is this: what is wheat and what is chaff? Think of the great documents of history: the Doomsday Book, the reliefs of Bis-tun in Iran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Declaration of Independence-what a tragedy it would be if we were to lose them.
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