r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖May 6, 2017

Doing research on DIY CPUs made me, once again, appreciate the Internet Archive even more

A lot of these pages were on college servers (~/username addresses) and it's amazing to me that they never bothered to see the value in preserving them

Or they were on now defunct hosting companies or the owners themselves have abandoned them for various reasons and disappeared

To have the foresight when the web was still young to try and preserve its content is amazing

Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKMay 6, 2017

@cypnk this is admittedly a cynical British view but I think a lot of colleges no longer encourage "giving away" educational material if they cannot monetise it by marketing paid for courses; and a lot of uni stuff disappears behind "student portals" you need ID for...

With regard to hobby sites disappearing, alas, I suspect many were edited by people in middle age who may be in good health today. At least there has been an effort to prevent the knowledge being lost.

Show threadFrankie Saxx
@cypnk @vfrmedia don't forget universities patent stuff too, and then license them. (Or exploit them themselves.)
May 6, 2017 at 1:19pmWeb
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKMay 6, 2017

@frankiesaxx @cypnk true, I suspect many profs sign a contract that course material developed using the unis resources belongs (at least in part) to the institution.

Also "building a CPU" may still be popular undergrad project : used as a "selling point" to get people to sign up. saddest part of this is its likely to be taught in time-pressured, exam heavy way that destroys *passion* students may have had to learn and they forget the teaching soon after they graduate..