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Is this whole archival movement the Internet equivalent of hoarding? When is it ok to clean house?
by kogir 14y ago
Is this whole archival movement the Internet equivalent of hoarding? When is it ok to clean house?
- cleverjake 14y agoWhen bits are essentially free, there isn't much of a reason not to. Could you imagine how fascinating it would be to be able to dive into the everyday culture of 100, or even 1000 years ago? The anthropological impacts of archiving day to day life is huge. For once, history may be written by facts, rather than the victors. That may be a bit naïve, but who cares if they aren't hurting anyone.
- sp332 14y agoSeveral groups tried to salvage as much of Geocities as possible before Yahoo killed it. They got most of it (about 1 terabyte) and you can fix most geocities.com links by changing them to point at reocities.com instead. The main reason is that it's user data and deleting it is rude. Second is that you can do interesting analysis on a terabyte of user accounts during the boom of the internet. http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/archives/3297 http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/archives/3297 The third is that it's history! NSFW example from geocities http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/archives/2736 http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/archives/2736