ElissaMar 2
I think a lot about the fact that I wrote games criticism for years, including a regular column on a web site, and none of that exists now. Vanished, maaaaybe findable only in obscure links buried and found under a peat bog in the wayback machine.
Show threadJacob TenderMar 3

@vampiress former music and entertainment critic here. While I was able to save *my own* publication (with some help from @terinjokes), sooo much of my writing was lost to time.

I was able to gather a lot of it over the years and republish it on my own website. Is that legal? I don’t know. But I figure if it wasn’t valuable enough to keep alive, it’s not valuable enough to threaten me over anymore either.

Show threadElissaMar 3
@Tender Yeah, that sounds relatable. 😕 Funny thing was, at a certain point with games criticism, there were many more sites than print mags, and there was a kind of eye-roll reserved from us arrogant digital writers for the people who "still" wrote for print mags. The irony was strong; joke's on us now, really. At least those people have tangible physical evidence of what they wrote, no doubt still in collections on shelves randomly about the place, too.
Show threadJacob Tender

@vampiress so true. “Nothing ever dies on the Internet” was a lie.

I’ve recently been gathering up Wordpress and Tumblr backups for any contemporaries that have and are willing to share them.

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