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Very cool. I remember an article I read about a veteran music journalist who applied for a job and was told he had no experience. Turned out every magazine he w
by budmang 11y ago
Very cool. I remember an article I read about a veteran music journalist who applied for a job and was told he had no experience. Turned out every magazine he worked for over 10+ years had shut down and there was not a single online reference of his articles.
Love that you're fighting the good fight (along with the Internet Archive) to keep a history of the Internet.
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- greedo 11y agoFrom 2000 through 2006 I freelanced for a middle tier publisher of computer magazines. Wrote 4-5 articles a month, probably 1/2 million words. The publisher had a paywall for their online versions of the print magazines, but really didn't put much effort into promoting it since print had been so lucrative. Over the last three years they shuttered the majority of the print magazines (and their corresponding online editions), and now it's all gone. The wayback machine/Internet Archive only has a limited number of pages available. Sad to realize that a lot of the work we do (whether it's writing or creating systems) is ephemeral...