The platform was clearly no longer profitable, nor used by a significant number of people. Modern "Big Tech" social media have completely hegemonized this sphere. And yet, those early blogs offer a unique glimpse of a society that, at the turn of the millennium, was grappling with the growing presence of the internet in our daily lives, and was just beginning to turn it into a space for sharing thoughts, pics, memories, and much more with others.
All of this will disappear on June 9th. 2/

What makes it even worse is that it's not possible to archive these pages through the Wayback Machine. As far as I can tell, the only way to save them is through tools available to individual users who are the creators of the Digilander space. Because I have tried, and I couldn't make it work with Libero's own tools (but maybe that's my fault). Meanwhile, many of the original authors have either lost interest in these old sites or have passed away. 3/

This is, as I said, a loss of important historical heritage, specially for someone like me, who was too young to remember everything about that period. Those blogs contained meaningful contributions on so many fascinating topics: the historical transition into the new millennium, the Y2K scare, the movements fighting for a fairer globalization, the fashions and trends of the moment, and, ofc, the Manu Chao fan clubs lol 4/

Entire archives of extremely important material will simply vanish.
And I see this as a process we will have to reckon with more and more frequently.
How much of the digital culture produced in the 1990s and 2000s will be lost in the next ten to twenty years?