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I think of all the content we've lost already. MySpace files are lost. Friendster archives are gone. So many YouTube videos lost to time.

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I link to a lot of stuff on my personal website and every month i check the links. About a dozen or so are dead every month, many on YouTube too.

I now adopted the practice of recovering the texts I deem worthy from way back machine and downloading all yt videos I really like locally.

But ofc one day I’ll also hit the bucket; still have to work out a contingency plan for my archive for that …

And Geocities, Vine, Google+, Anglefire, Tripod, Xoom, Homestead, Lycos communities, AOL Hometown, MSN Groups, 50megs.com, etc, etc.... not to mention small specialty sites like em411.com. All that content/history, just poof.

They found the Vine archives recently. Doesn't mean they'll get uploaded as Musk wants the new Vine to just be AI waifus. But the files still exist on a disk or tape somewhere.

I just remembered Orkut. Though I suspect Google has backups or Orkut and Google+ somewhere. I wonder if Yahoo Answers is still on a tape somewhere?

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