Part of feeling secure is knowing that capture is automatic. While browser web capture at first struck us as somewhat trivial, this essential feature has changed our behavior. The failure of Gemmell’s hard drive resulted in losing four months of captured web pages and was an emotional and productivity blow – perhaps like having one’s memories taken away. Even months later, he searches for information expected to be in the web archive, only to realize that it was lost. Bell had a similar experience when he inadvertently deleted an email folder that while backed up was not properly synchronized (see.
