Comment by qingcharles
Comment by qingcharles 12 hours ago
I think of all the content we've lost already. MySpace files are lost. Friendster archives are gone. So many YouTube videos lost to time.
Comment by qingcharles 12 hours ago
I think of all the content we've lost already. MySpace files are lost. Friendster archives are gone. So many YouTube videos lost to time.
They found the Vine archives recently. Doesn't mean they'll get uploaded as Musk wants the new Vine to just be AI waifus. But the files still exist on a disk or tape somewhere.
I just remembered Orkut. Though I suspect Google has backups or Orkut and Google+ somewhere. I wonder if Yahoo Answers is still on a tape somewhere?
I link to a lot of stuff on my personal website and every month i check the links. About a dozen or so are dead every month, many on YouTube too.
I now adopted the practice of recovering the texts I deem worthy from way back machine and downloading all yt videos I really like locally.
But ofc one day I’ll also hit the bucket; still have to work out a contingency plan for my archive for that …
And Geocities, Vine, Google+, Anglefire, Tripod, Xoom, Homestead, Lycos communities, AOL Hometown, MSN Groups, 50megs.com, etc, etc.... not to mention small specialty sites like em411.com. All that content/history, just poof.