Abstract
With most critical and historical interpretations of the Internet trapped between the ideologies of technophilia and the progress, little attention is being placed on the digital future of the analogue past. This paper evaluates contemporary notions of cataloguing, preservation and memory. However, most stress is placed on how the passions and enthusiasm of popular culture are tempered through digitisation.
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