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   GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 04:29:24 JST GhostOnTheHalfShell

   • Cory Doctorow
   • internetarchive

   Married to the heat death of the internet*, the internet is ephemeral

   * where shitbot content and shit search swamps genuine content

   It's why the @internetarchive
   and the library of Congress are important

   @pluralistic

   It's frightening how much history is going straight into /dev/null;
   with print media, there was an outside chance it was stored in some pack rat's home

   https://www.theverge.com/24321569/internet-decay-link-rot-web-archive-deleted-culture

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     Greg Johnston (gpjohnston@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 05:17:25 JST Greg Johnston

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • internetarchive

     @GhostOnTheHalfShell @internetarchive @pluralistic True. Hundreds of stories I wrote for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that were all on the web from 1998 until the print editions of the newspaper died in 2009 are gone now from the Internet. They are archived by the Seattle Public Libraries, either digitally or on microfilm. But for practical purposes to the public, not available without big effort. Mentioned to a friend here just yesterday how I think the Internet has gone to shit.