If you had told me ten years ago that the most aggressively preserved digital artifacts of the 2020s would be high-pitched yellow gibberish and a man named Gru, I would have laughed. But here we are.

Arthur spun his chair around. Standing on top of a rack of tape drives was a small, yellow creature wearing blue overalls and a pair of oversized, virtual reality goggles. It pulled the goggles up, revealing one large goggle-eye and one smaller one, blinking innocently.

Arthur rubbed his temples. "Okay, look. The internet isn't a physical thing you put in a box. It's data. We’re the Internet Archive. We are the box."