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		Semiapies on Feb 11, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BBC To Delete 172 Websites Due to Budget Cuts, Gee... "We don't need every single episode of Eastenders archived" I'm sympathetic to preserving the shows themselves. Their promotional pages on the BBC site when they're no longer in first-run? Feh.

tudorw on Feb 12, 2011 [–]

I went to a museum once where they just kept everything, I learnt 2 things, one, that the first radio batteries came in more varieties than we have today, and two, never go to a museum that try's to keep everything...

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