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Data rot is a serious problem.
I suspect that our time period will end up as an information dark age to future historians.
Not true--it's still there, but it's not SEO-optimized so you'll never find it.
I have a couple of gigas of unique data, videogames + sources from the early mobile game era, don't know what to do with it. Gotta find some data-museum or something 😋
Archive.org
Can you just upload stuff there?
Uploading – A Basic Guide – Internet Archive Help Center https://help.archive.org/help/uploading-a-basic-guide/
Thanks! I looked around but it's a jungle there, no idea where to even start, so thanks for the link, will check out!
it’s good to have pirates for friends
Exactly. Just recently found out a favorite creator of mine has shut down his youtube channel and all their videos spanning over a decade are just gone. Feelsbadman.jpg.
I'm looking at you, Little Big Planet user created content.
Basically nothing from before 2010 that I posted online can be found except for some fragments on the Wayback Machine.
It is more of, if the librarians don’t have a copy; it will not exist in the next 20 years
I just encountered this. I looked for images of "White House Rose Garden" and 90% of I got was images of it getting bulldozed for getting paved over per Trump's recent command.
So I looked for images from 1980-2010 and 90% of I got was historical stuff NOT from that time range -- like yellowed photos of how it looked before Jackie O' made it the Rose Garden, or pictures of MLK or other random gardens.
There HAVE to be images of the Rose Garden from before Melania ripped out the trees in Trump's previous term. Where did they go?
The best collection I could find was on this unsecured site: http://tysto.com/grounds/rose-garden.htm
After that, it was, sadly, two dog pics on a Daily Mail article. One with a Bush the other with Regan and Thatcher: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2440219/George-W-Bush-pays-tribute-dead-dog-13th-birthday.html
Most sites only have stuff like this current/bulldozer stuff: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a65124864/white-house-rose-garden-paved-photos/
Where did all the other photos go??????
Wow, you'd think it wouldn't be this hard. There's White House archives online, but they all seem to be text only. Articles about the rose garden, but never any pictures. And when it's an article with pictures from 2000-2016, it's only historical pictures, as if showing a contemporary picture would be the most redundant thing to do in an article about a rose garden.
Is tysto someone's personal archive of whitehousemuseum.org? I don't get the domain name, the home page mentions the other domain (which is for sale). Wikipedia lists whitehousemuseum.org under "External links" for a collection of photos.
No idea what tysto is. but I wanted to warn people that it is not secure.
It also looks like that 1973 picture of Nixon's bedroom is newer than the website design, so I'm not surprised it isn't using https.
Assume anything you post will live on. Everything else could vanish so save it if you need the evidence.
Murphy's law
Or more accurately: Finagle's law, often confused with Murphy's law. Murphy's law is more about UI design that shouldn't allow for mistakes. Finagle's law is about bad luck and the general perversity of the universe.
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