I find Bret Victor's comparison between the internet and the LOC a little weird. I've always thought of the internet as a publishing/sharing medium, not an archive.
There are plenty of books that go out of print within ten years, we just happen to have infrastructure beyond publishers (libraries) that preserve published copies.
I think it's significant that the Library of Congress has funding, an official mandate, employees, a clear legal status, and stores complete copies of the works in its catalog. A similar model would work great for the Internet (and archive.org is doing its best to fill the role).
> I find Bret Victor's comparison between the internet and the LOC a little weird. I've always thought of the internet as a publishing/sharing medium, not an archive.
The Library of Congress is archiving all tweets from the US[0], which I think is what he is referring to.
There are plenty of books that go out of print within ten years, we just happen to have infrastructure beyond publishers (libraries) that preserve published copies.