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This is why we need to scrape services like this and keep copies for posterity. For every site like this that can't sustain itself well into the future, a part

This is why we need to scrape services like this and keep copies for posterity. For every site like this that can't sustain itself well into the future, a part of the Internet and its culture dies. RIP Soup.io

nojito 6y ago
Who’s going to pay for that?
- chewzerita 6y ago
  OP may have a different answer, but the Internet Archive[0] and the /r/DataHoarder[1] communities are really obsessed with digital archival and preservation. The latter has gone to great lengths to, well, hoard anything and everything imaginable that they can. [0] https://archive.org/ https://archive.org/ [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/
  - surround 6y ago
    Doesn’t the Internet Archive have a collection of websites they backed up just before they went down? Do they plan on backing up Soup.io? Do they even know about it?
    - rzzzt 6y ago
      I think you are thinking of the Archive Team: https://www.archiveteam.org/ https://www.archiveteam.org/
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- zucker42 6y ago
  The Internet archive...or just individuals sharing the cost.
- PhantomGremlin 6y ago
  Who’s going to pay for that? The "Imperial We", obviously. Goes along with "someone should do something ...". It's true it would be nice to keep copies for posterity, but it's not realistically possible to archive everything created for all time. OTOH, state actors like the NSA should be archiving lots of things like this, because "you never know ...". But, unfortunately for us, a meme from years ago nailed this: "My computer hard drive crashed. NSA won't send me their backup copy."
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