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I fondly remember DejaNews. And I remember searching and finding an answer from myself. Then I realised all data we generate will be sucked up and remembered f
by the-dude 5y ago
I fondly remember DejaNews.
And I remember searching and finding an answer from myself. Then I realised all data we generate will be sucked up and remembered for as long as it is considered valueable.
- cube00 5y agoIt's nice to know when the algorithm decides it's time to ban a group the archives go with it.
- stjohnswarts 5y agolol really? They just chucks all the archives of a given group? That doesn't seem very google, even for google.
- cube00 5y agoI doubt they actually delete them on the back end but at least from what I can tell I can't access them anymore now the ban is in place.
- hyperpallium2 5y agoAnd one day, from this we shall be restored, and we shall live again, smeared across a million death cubes.
- weinzierl 5y agoMe too and back then I'd never have imagined that it could essentially disappear. It's a bit as imaging stackoverflow to disappear. People will say there are the data dumps, someone will surely set up a mirror, etc. but in the end easily searchable and actively maintained content is something entirely different. At least the 'easily searchable' part of the old Usenet content is something that might come back with https://www.usenetarchives.com/ https://www.usenetarchives.com/
- mananaysiempre 5y agoRe the last link, as long as an archive only exists in a single place or is only operated by a single entity, it may as well not exist at all, because eventually it won’t. (This is also what terrifies me about the Wayback Machine and, to a much lesser extent, WinWorld.) An archivist who does not provide for easy mirroring is thus irresponsible.
- sumtechguy 5y agoI did something similar. It was that day I tried to make sure I use some alias when posting. What is benign one day will be heretical tomorrow and vice versa.