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The politics of volunteer organizations tends to get uglier after there gets to be money in it. Preservation of things like this, ephemeral history, is importa
by h2odragon 3y ago
The politics of volunteer organizations tends to get uglier after there gets to be money in it.
Preservation of things like this, ephemeral history, is important. Everybody recognizes that immediately: "hey what a good idea if someone would save that stuff". The actual doing gets harder.
i got a stack of 17 years of "PC magazine" somewhere; easy to find people who say "oo cool i'd love to look through those" but much harder to find anyone willing to come pick them up.
- init2null 3y agoI just found my two remaining beloved PCMags in my boxes. They have such fond memories attached, but I'm thrilled that I don't have 17 years. I understand the desire to keep years of magazines, but I'd worry that it becomes a personality trait at that point. And of course they take up way too much room. My newly-adopted Win98 PC is bad enough.
- nxobject 3y agoI'm sad there's no easily-available public resource that would at least destructively scan those for you.
- nanomonkey 3y agoInternet Archive scans all sorts of media and saves them.
- ehPReth 3y agothey do for sure: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donation-to-the-internet-archive/ https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donat...