Rhizome has painstakingly documented its forensic archival of The Thing BBS https://thingbbs.rhizome.org/ https://thingbbs.rhizome.org/ It's a testament to ho

Rhizome has painstakingly documented its forensic archival of The Thing BBS https://thingbbs.rhizome.org/ https://thingbbs.rhizome.org/ It's a testament to how de-centralized and randomly those archives were served. And the death of dial-up async long manifesto culture. Any greenfield cloud based approach can scale users, but not that culture of usenet binary harvest tools, irc #warez clubs and constrained bandwidth netiquette ;)