On May 28, 2002, Paramount Pictures announced it had optioned Avril Lavigne’s song "Sk8er Boi" for a feature film. This news item, along with decades' worth of others both more and less significant in music and pop culture journalism from MTV News, might have been lost forever were it not for The Internet Archive.
Days after Paramount, MTV’s parent company, pulled the plug on over 20 year’s worth of online MTV News content, The Internet Archive added a searchable database of 460,575 web...