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Though I'm not a user and never liked the service myself, I'd like it to be preserved. It is part of internet history. Let's not let happen to answers what happ
by marcodiego 6y ago
Though I'm not a user and never liked the service myself, I'd like it to be preserved. It is part of internet history. Let's not let happen to answers what happened to geocities.
- dwighttk 6y agoSome things aren’t worth saving.
- nine_k 6y agoTell that to the future historians.
- dwighttk 6y agoGladly, but my comment probably won’t make it to the future because it will be voted down, proving its correctness.
- chris_wot 6y agoParadoxical then that as your comment won’t be worth preserving this makes it worth preserving?
- dwighttk 6y agoOh, it isn’t worth preserving. That was my original point.
- brainless 6y agoNo, voting down your comment does not mean it is correct. It means the voters (vote downers) disagree with it and are expressing that. You must not be smart enough to get that. But anyhow.
- dwighttk 6y agoOh. I though that downvoting meant “this isn’t worth saving.” I must not be smart enough to get what you’re trying to say. Yahoo answers is a hot pile of garbage. The Library of Babel has a higher signal to noise ratio.
- selfhoster11 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Let's be respectful to each other. We're here to discuss and not to offend.
- ramblerman 6y agoOof, What a mess it would be to have to dredge through terrabytes of online forum posts, tweets, and other nonsense. But your point stands, looked at as a whole, and with data mining, I guess they could gather something about common words uses, time spent on the internet etc... But I wonder who would really care about the flame wars, and chit chat 200 years from now.
- andrewzah 6y agoLanguage researchers will definitely have use for it.
- selfhoster11 6y agoWe are still having a good laugh at Ea-Nasir's[0] expense nearly 40 centuries later. I say we should keep these writings, especially as text is very lightweight to store. [0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/05/11/meet-the-worst-businessman-of-the-18th-century/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/05/11/me...
- luhn 6y agoUnfortunately Verizon has shown itself to be unwilling to work with Internet Archive and others that want to preserve this history. When Yahoo Groups shut down couple years ago, Verizon made no effort to help the archival and actually banned accounts that were attempting to scrape data. https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/yahoo-groups-is-ending-and-verizon-is-making-it-hard-for-people-to-archive-its-content.html https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/yahoo-groups-is-ending-...