Today we’re told to store our files in the cloud as a means of backing up information in remote locations so that we always have a copy of it. Did newspapers function in the same way once upon a time?

Are old newspapers an early version of “the cloud?”

In some places, newspapers published summaries of land deeds…is it possible that the courthouse burned but there’s copies of those newspapers somewhere else? Was the birth of a child mentioned in the newspaper, but later adopted and those adoption records are now closed? Were the local court records destroyed but were some court details published in the local newspaper?

Local gossip columns also seem to be a forerunner of social media.

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