PANDORA, Australia's Web Archive 1996-ongoing held at the National Library of Australia in Canberra.

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Details of the OSCE's Kosovo Verification Mission are on the Web, with an archive of reports on the ceasefire in the region, and the movement of forces and displaced persons before the monitors left.

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They aim to have the archive available on the web by 2014, a century after World War I began.

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Parental Controls allow parents to restrict access to the Kindle Store, Cloud Archive and the Experimental Web Browser so they can give their Kindle to a child worry-free.

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But an online service called the Wayback Machine at archive.org keeps records of old Web sites.

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It doesn't sound like the right place to archive messages thumbed on a cell phone or dashed off in the Web page text box of a Web site.

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On the Internet, a nonprofit organisation called the Internet Archive does the same thing, aiming to store regular snapshots of the Web for future generations.

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