Funny this thread should have come up. I was recently motivated to look into a project I recalled from my primary schooling, the BBC Domesday project which was, I suppose, a forerunner of Google maps plus wikipedia in that ordinary folk contributed. It was to mark 900 years since William the Conqueror’s original book. Interestingly, anyone with a working knowledge of Latin can go to Kew and read the original nine-hundred years later. The digital edition was/is on the verge of obsolescence already as nobody uses the files or the video discs anymore. I believe work is ongoing to save it.

It certainly makes one think.