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Colin May 9, 2023

It's kinda funny how ubiquitous the phrase "the Internet never forgets" is, yet just how seemingly wrong it's becoming as time goes on.
The WWW gets older and if pages weren’t archived and server goes down / content changes / service enshittifies—yes the Internet DOES INDEED forget. Stop taking it for granted!

It also reminds me just how ephemeral recorded-content really is.

Humankind would be back at square one had we only relied on our own memories + speaking (no recording) and nothing else.

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Mason Loring Bliss Aug 19, 2024

@colinstu I am deeply grateful that archive.org exists for just this reason, and even then there are things I remember from the early- and pre- web days that are gone now.

Without archive.org we wouldn't have this any more:
archive.org/details/foghorn-v4…

While I can find en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_C… I don't see a record of the BCS Mac group, which was quite active in its day.

FOGHORN v4n4 1985 January : FOG : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

FOGHORNNewsletter of the First Osborne Groupvol 4 no 4January 1985

Internet Archive

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Colin Aug 19, 2024

@mason reminds me of this doomer pic edit I made xD.
https://birdbutt.com/@colinstu/112383875720086279
Yeah losing Archive.org would be a tragedy to humanity. There needs to be an archive of the archive.

Colin (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image It's 2031 and you see this: #HeatDeathOfTheInternet #LateStageCapitalism

birdbutt.com

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Mason Loring Bliss Aug 19, 2024

@colinstu Even knowing it's a joke, that makes me suck in my breath with dismay. :)

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Colin

@mason when I first saw that error page (ok it didn't say "Permanently") but it goddamn almost felt like it at first! Heart sunk and then I re-read and saw it was just temporary. But then it gave me an idea of "what if not.."