Mastodawn

I just wanted to share a (not so late) night rant with you.
In three days, the Italian web portal Libero.it is going to shut down thousands of early blogs that were originally created through the platform ItaliaOnline and later rebranded as Digilander.
I think this is a paradigmatic case of what we are going to experience more and more often in the near future. 1/

#digitaloblivion #webarchiving #Digilander #Italianwebhistory
#lostinternet #earlyblogs

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angelo

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/