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I have a stack about a foot tall of copies i collected from the Obama era. Anyone idea what i should do with them? Perhaps donate them to the library as a publi
by bitsinthesky 2y ago
I have a stack about a foot tall of copies i collected from the Obama era. Anyone idea what i should do with them? Perhaps donate them to the library as a public good?
They are still hilarious. My favorite is one where they pretended a Chinese ceo of a fish company bought the paper. It was filled with articles with bad statistics trying to get the common American to eat more fish, how wonderful the ccp is, and how weak and decadent the American people are. They also made the grammar terrible. Definitely riding the line with seeing what they could get away with!
- pabs3 2y agoYeah, or send them to archive.org for scanning and publishing on the web.
- bitsinthesky 2y agoAnd these fullpage scans provide value above what theonion.com already provides?
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- skyyler 2y agoA lot of people will be interested in the ads and other signs of the times.
- ht_th 2y agoBesides, who knows how long theonion.com will stay up. Or keeps giving access to all old articles? After all, they've just been bought. Usually this results in changes, despite new owner's loud promises that nothing will change.
- ajkjk 2y agoWell in this case everyone wants something to change. The onion's glory days were in the past.
- Intralexical 2y agoYou're never quite sure what you're actually looking at on the web. Was this edited at any point after the listed publish date? Did it survive intact during the backend migrations since? Is that formatting supposed to be a bit weird? Is there originally supposed to be an image after that oddly placed paragraph break? What did it look like back when `<blink>` and `<marquee>` were still a thing? Did it look better at 800x600? Did it show the same page to all user-agents? Hard copies, physical reality (or at least rasters), are still the ultimate form of immutability.
- bitsinthesky 2y agoNice. Okay, I’ll give it a shot :)
- qingcharles 2y agoI'm building a free magazine encyclopedia wiki. My email is on my profile. Happy to scan them and upload them if they are not already available in electronic format.
- bitsinthesky 2y agoI’ve sent you an email
- rurp 2y agoMention of the Obama era reminded me of one of my favorite Onion headlines: Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help Uninsured Sick People https://www.theonion.com/mitt-romney-haunted-by-past-of-trying-to-help-uninsured-1819572569 https://www.theonion.com/mitt-romney-haunted-by-past-of-tryi...