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I agree. It was reported that they lost all user data a while back. > Myspace, the once mighty social network, has lost every single piece of content uploaded

by Shank 2y ago

I agree. It was reported that they lost all user data a while back. > Myspace, the once mighty social network, has lost every single piece of content uploaded to its site before 2016, including millions of songs, photos and videos with no other home on the internet. [0] [0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/18/myspace-loses-all-content-uploaded-before-2016 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/18/myspace-l...

peterburkimsher 2y ago
Some of it was rescued by archivists and uploaded to the Internet Archive. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19569865 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19569865
Devasta 2y ago
I'm convinced that in 200 years time historians will know more about the daily life of an average person in the roman empire than they will someone around today. "The Internet never forgets" might have been true at one stage but is definitely no longer the case.
- tokai 2y ago
  Some parts will be preserved. Some countries have legal deposit not only for printed materials but also the internet. https://www.kb.dk/en/find-materials/collections/netarkivet https://www.kb.dk/en/find-materials/collections/netarkivet
qingcharles 2y ago
I'd love to know the insider details on how an entire social network was reduced down to a single hard-drive which was unrecoverable.
- LinuxBender 2y ago
  I don't know the details of the migration failure, but I know that prior to migration and prior to Rupert buying the site and the hardware it was all on a big EBCDIC database with no de-duplication and I have no idea why this type of database was chosen. I did not keep in touch with the previous owners of the site. I did not work for them directly but managed the back-end of many big sites at the time. It was originally on a HP SureStore 256, then a HP SureStore 512 that I managed. I have no idea what happened after all the hardware left our data-center. It was never meant to be a social media site but rather a mountable drive on peoples laptops part of another acquisition and somehow evolved into a social media platform. The SureStore is just a rebranded Hitachi HDS and one drive failing will not cause loss. In fact one would have to try hard to lose data on those storage arrays via bad disks. If I had to speculate, it could have been something to do with migrating a 19TB EBCDIC database, but that's just a guess. Some prior discussion [1] [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39058953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39058953
  - qingcharles 2y ago
    Thank you for the background! (reading your posts now -- god, I hated that Internic template; for some reason it always got my hackles up -- I put up with it when the domains were free)

by Shank 2y ago

peterburkimsher 2y ago

Some of it was rescued by archivists and uploaded to the Internet Archive. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19569865 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19569865

Devasta 2y ago

I'm convinced that in 200 years time historians will know more about the daily life of an average person in the roman empire than they will someone around today. "The Internet never forgets" might have been true at one stage but is definitely no longer the case.

tokai 2y ago
Some parts will be preserved. Some countries have legal deposit not only for printed materials but also the internet. https://www.kb.dk/en/find-materials/collections/netarkivet https://www.kb.dk/en/find-materials/collections/netarkivet

qingcharles 2y ago

I'd love to know the insider details on how an entire social network was reduced down to a single hard-drive which was unrecoverable.

LinuxBender 2y ago
I don't know the details of the migration failure, but I know that prior to migration and prior to Rupert buying the site and the hardware it was all on a big EBCDIC database with no de-duplication and I have no idea why this type of database was chosen. I did not keep in touch with the previous owners of the site. I did not work for them directly but managed the back-end of many big sites at the time. It was originally on a HP SureStore 256, then a HP SureStore 512 that I managed. I have no idea what happened after all the hardware left our data-center. It was never meant to be a social media site but rather a mountable drive on peoples laptops part of another acquisition and somehow evolved into a social media platform. The SureStore is just a rebranded Hitachi HDS and one drive failing will not cause loss. In fact one would have to try hard to lose data on those storage arrays via bad disks. If I had to speculate, it could have been something to do with migrating a 19TB EBCDIC database, but that's just a guess. Some prior discussion [1] [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39058953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39058953
- qingcharles 2y ago
  Thank you for the background! (reading your posts now -- god, I hated that Internic template; for some reason it always got my hackles up -- I put up with it when the domains were free)