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   Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] (platypus@glammr.us)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jan-2023 22:15:11 JST Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]

   Thousands of archivists and librarians over here gesticulating *yes, finally, we've been saying this for a decade+*

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jan-2023 22:15:37 JST pettter

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     @platypus All information trends towards either ubiquity or deletion, and that is even more true on the internet.

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jan-2023 22:31:46 JST pettter

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     • Dorothea Salo

     @dsalo Not sure why my toot would lead to you believe that I haven't?

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     Dorothea Salo (dsalo@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jan-2023 22:31:47 JST Dorothea Salo

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     • pettter

     @pettter @platypus You've... never heard of librarians or archivists, have you?

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     OpenComputeDesign (opencomputedesign@linuxrocks.online)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 07:07:47 JST OpenComputeDesign

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     @platypus As someone who collects devices from the early 2000s, when a lot of software was already starting to be distributed online only, yes, it's almost all gone without a trace. Sure, you might find the occasional forum post _referring_ to it, but all the links are long, long dead. Just as I've also seen videos I've been actively watching disappear without a trace.

     I try really hard to archive anything important to me, as I know it's current source will dry up.

     ....*grumble grumble* "DMCA" mother f... *grumble grumble* "DRM" bullsh... *grumble*

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 07:08:04 JST pettter

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     • Ashton

     @Ashton @platypus Also geocities

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     Ashton (ashton@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 07:08:11 JST Ashton

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     @platypus “we might be living in a digital dark age right now” has been in my mind for at least 5 years, and I’m probably a bit late to that observation.

     Hell, the destruction of flash games should’ve been a major hint.