While the traditional web depends on a small number of organizations for archival, the Hypermedia protocol natively supports archival.

You can access and store the source data for the content you view, and redistribute it, if you want.

Because we build upon IPFS, and because all authors sign content, you don't need to trust the archiver to give you valid data. You can validate it yourself by checking signatures and the content-addressed IDs (CIDs).

The End of Broken Links

The web suffers from "link rot". If you browse older content on the web, you will notice that many links are broken. This is a horrible downside of the modern web- cross-site data degrades over time. Eventually the original author will pass away and stop hosting their content. This should not result in the loss of humanity's important information.

When you form references to other content on the network, you are encouraged to download and store the source data.

This allows you to avoid broken links. If the destination server is offline or unwilling to share the referenced content, you can redistribute it.

Now you can link and embed content with confidence that the data will remain available for your future readers- even when the original publisher goes offline.