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A sad moment, as Posterous shuts down[1], we can lose some amazing history on the web. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5228997 http://news.ycombinator.

• kintamanimatt 14y ago
  A lot of people will migrate their content, but there's hope that a lot of it will be preserved by the Internet Archive. You're covered at least! http://web.archive.org/web/20120106215046/http://iamwil.posterous.com/i-got-into-yc-after-applying-six-times-heres http://web.archive.org/web/20120106215046/http://iamwil.post...
  • derefr 14y ago
    > there's hope that Is there some way to poke the Internet Archive, saying "please get a fresh backup of this whole thing right now before it goes down?"
    • kintamanimatt 14y ago
      I don't know. Maybe there's some way we can reach out to someone high up to make it happen quickly.
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