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Married to the heat death of the internet*, the internet is ephemeral

* where shitbot content and shit search swamps genuine content

It's why the @internetarchive
and the library of Congress are important

@pluralistic

It's frightening how much history is going straight into /dev/null;
with print media, there was an outside chance it was stored in some pack rat's home

theverge.com/24321569/internet

The Verge · How to disappear completelyBy s.e. smith
Greg Johnston

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @internetarchive @pluralistic True. Hundreds of stories I wrote for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that were all on the web from 1998 until the print editions of the newspaper died in 2009 are gone now from the Internet. They are archived by the Seattle Public Libraries, either digitally or on microfilm. But for practical purposes to the public, not available without effort. Mentioned to a friend here just yesterday how I think the Internet has gone to shit.

@GPJohnston @GhostOnTheHalfShell @internetarchive @pluralistic

It's going to get much worse under and the techbros. Anything remotely inconvenient, or heretical, will simply disappear.

Save your own copy of anything important.

@a_cubed @pluralistic @GhostOnTheHalfShell @internetarchive A smattering available, most of my stories are not there. The issue I think is most or many P-I stories from that period were wiped from the site, I think to save space? After the print edition ceased publication.