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		account42 on Dec 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer” Once you start transforming a document you always risk discarding information that later will turn out to be useful. Besides, I bet images, videos and other non-text data dwarf the space required by HTML markup.

echelon on Dec 12, 2019 [–]

Yes, that's what I expect to be the case. I'm just musing over a world built in semantic markup rather than presentational with arbitrary structure.

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