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I want it to protect all sorts of random obscure documents, mostly kind of crappy, that I can't predict in advance, so I can pursue my hobby of answering random
by card_zero 2y ago
I want it to protect all sorts of random obscure documents, mostly kind of crappy, that I can't predict in advance, so I can pursue my hobby of answering random obscure questions. For instance:
* What is a "bird famine", and did one happen in 1880?
* Did any astrologer ever claim that the constellations "remember" the areas of the sky, and hence zodiac signs, that they belonged to in ancient times before precession shifted them around?
* Who first said "psychology is pulling habits out of rats", and in what context? (That one's on Wikiquote now, but only because I put it there after research on IA.)
Or consider the recently rediscovered Bram Stoker short story. That was found in an actual library, but only because the library kept copies of old Irish newspapers instead of lining cupboards with them.
The necessary documents to answer highly specific questions are very boring, and nobody has any reason to like them.
- oxygen_crisis 2y agoYou could let users choose what to mirror, and one of those choices could be a big bucket of all the least available stuff, for pure preservationists who don't want to focus on particular segments of the data. Sort of like the bittorrent algorithm that favors retrieving and sharing the least-available chunks if you haven't assigned any priority to certain parts.
- deafpolygon 2y agoMy favorite question is: whether or not Bowser took the princess to another castle.
- card_zero 2y agoSince the IA had a collection of emulators (some of them running online*), and old ROMs and floppies and such, it could probably help with that one too. * Strictly speaking, running in-browser, but that sounded like "Bowser" so I wrote online instead.