Preserving the past in the Digital Age is a necessary way to protect information from disappearing. For example, in the past information was written on acidic paper, paper that would literally melt away within years. Unfortunately, that is a prime reason for why the past has remained unknown.  The only way to preserve information is to somehow get it transferred into the Internet or any other digital location. From the Internet, people are able to read documents that were able to be saved. Digitally, things have been preserved through things such as images and text. In images, someone is able to photoshop a picture to make it look like something else.