<!-- 2026-02-18> Based on html code which tells the browser to ignore anything between the symbols <! -- and -->. It allows the coder to put in useful notes which will not be seen by the viewer: It makes them invisible. Here I use it where I broke off writing to indicate that a work is still in progress, and when it was last attended to, via the date, which is in YYYY-MM-DD order. What is to come is immanent, but "invisible."
As a work in progress, taking place like bird flights across fields to new trees, and back again, this is a system for indicating what is still in progress, and when it last saw progress.
The Internet Archive. The Internet Archive (archive.org or waybackmachine.org) is an American charity founded in 1996 which has been gathering and preserving websites and resources from around the globe since its founding. The Waybackmachine is the direct route for getting to old websites (and current) via their urls or keywords. Most of the external links in this book will be to the Waybackmachine saves, because they are dated items of record, they tend to endure, and they keep the present honest. Because of this, the charity is under constant pressure from those who do not want to keep the present honest and the past free to access. Donations to support them are always welcome.
They tend to endure, but the old shibboleth that 'Once on the Internet, Always on the Internet' died many years ago. Once website coding went from manual html with few ring-a-ding features to Content Management Systems with increasingly complex add-in features, my impression is that the Waybackmachine - the brilliant invention within the equally brilliant Rocky and Bullwinkle ("Nothing up my sleeve") Cartoon Show on American television - is that with complexification came a loss of consistent capacity for preserving websites in depth. Whole sections and whole features of the later Planned Environment Therapy Trust websites, and all the labour and resources they represented, are not there. Hence the Alderaanish cry of pain and horror as the Mulberry Bash began taking down the serial websites anchored in the old Archive and Study Centre (see here), without first giving warning, or giving a chance to ensure deep preservation.
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