This made me so sad. I've been writing professionally (books and before that, for magazines) for thirty years. I recently pulled up an older book proposal I'd written to share with a friend writing one, and I clicked on a link to one of my online articles. Gone. I clicked through another and another and another; all gone. I wrote for places like Self and The Huffington Post and Cosmo and Marie Claire; I never dreamed those archives would just vanish. Before the internet I had a fat portfolio of "tears" (or tear sheets, literally pages ripped from the magazines I wrote for). I also would print photos monthly from our one good camera and put them in albums. Then magazines became websites and cameras became phones and it was too much to keep up with so nothing has been updated. Also I'm old. :(
I started online in the days of AOL and when the net came along they initially blocked access. It was a walled garden until that was untenable. Then as things grew and graphical browsers became the norm (remember Netscape?), people and companies kept their own digital archives. The real change came with the cloud, when service companies sprang up to provide remote storage in an effortless and cheap enough way that human laziness kicked in and the thought of personally managed archives faded. That was only worsened when digital cameras and eventually phones, killed the film industry for easy, infinite, digital point and shoot, without hard copies.
The fact that no one but The Wayback Machine has made an effort to capture digital history is not surprising. The net as we know it today, is driven by corporate profits and personal indulgence. Between the two, archival preservation has no place.
The Adam Rogers post however, is very overblown. Endless thousands of companies have folded over the centuries, taking with them, knowledge, documents, trade secrets, inventions, skills, etc. People have lived lives and their photos, ideas, and histories were trashed when their homes were cleared and sold off. There's really nothing new there.
Whether analog or digital, much has been lost to time for thousands of years. Digital provides the easiest path to avoid the issue, but again, there's no impetus.
I'm positive exponentially more value was lost with the demise of the library in Alexandria than all that has been lost online. Nice to have, but we'll get by.
Regarding the globalist's rewriting the narrative(s) with no counter evidence to be found, they will block anything existing, if not bring down or heavily restrict the internet anyway. So again, I'm not too concerned.
Those of us with eyes open to see what's happening, should understand what readiness is, be smart enough, and self-motivated enough to manage their own archives of everything important to them in a safe, independently accessible method. To do anything less, is to deny personal responsibility for the sake of complaining and self-victimization.
You know, you raise great points. I too thought his citation of shuttered companies was just a way to use the Oxford comma. My biggest concern -- and what I left out of this post by accident -- is Wayback going out of business. It's a way to share 'what they really said' back then. But if my sole purpose is to prove that I'm right and LeftTard slave to government is wrong...that's a big waste of time if the globalists are ACKSHULLY trying to render me dead. #readiness #metals #water #food #rounds #morewater
Very true. Yes Wayback is the only guardrail and "going out of business" might be a decision made for them. Unfortunately, besides the weirdoes that live in my house, few people will ever take enough personal responsibility to secure their digital lives for themselves.
This made me so sad. I've been writing professionally (books and before that, for magazines) for thirty years. I recently pulled up an older book proposal I'd written to share with a friend writing one, and I clicked on a link to one of my online articles. Gone. I clicked through another and another and another; all gone. I wrote for places like Self and The Huffington Post and Cosmo and Marie Claire; I never dreamed those archives would just vanish. Before the internet I had a fat portfolio of "tears" (or tear sheets, literally pages ripped from the magazines I wrote for). I also would print photos monthly from our one good camera and put them in albums. Then magazines became websites and cameras became phones and it was too much to keep up with so nothing has been updated. Also I'm old. :(
I'm sad too -- worried most about Wayback Machine.
I'm old too -- probably more so than you!
I started online in the days of AOL and when the net came along they initially blocked access. It was a walled garden until that was untenable. Then as things grew and graphical browsers became the norm (remember Netscape?), people and companies kept their own digital archives. The real change came with the cloud, when service companies sprang up to provide remote storage in an effortless and cheap enough way that human laziness kicked in and the thought of personally managed archives faded. That was only worsened when digital cameras and eventually phones, killed the film industry for easy, infinite, digital point and shoot, without hard copies.
The fact that no one but The Wayback Machine has made an effort to capture digital history is not surprising. The net as we know it today, is driven by corporate profits and personal indulgence. Between the two, archival preservation has no place.
The Adam Rogers post however, is very overblown. Endless thousands of companies have folded over the centuries, taking with them, knowledge, documents, trade secrets, inventions, skills, etc. People have lived lives and their photos, ideas, and histories were trashed when their homes were cleared and sold off. There's really nothing new there.
Whether analog or digital, much has been lost to time for thousands of years. Digital provides the easiest path to avoid the issue, but again, there's no impetus.
I'm positive exponentially more value was lost with the demise of the library in Alexandria than all that has been lost online. Nice to have, but we'll get by.
Regarding the globalist's rewriting the narrative(s) with no counter evidence to be found, they will block anything existing, if not bring down or heavily restrict the internet anyway. So again, I'm not too concerned.
Those of us with eyes open to see what's happening, should understand what readiness is, be smart enough, and self-motivated enough to manage their own archives of everything important to them in a safe, independently accessible method. To do anything less, is to deny personal responsibility for the sake of complaining and self-victimization.
You know, you raise great points. I too thought his citation of shuttered companies was just a way to use the Oxford comma. My biggest concern -- and what I left out of this post by accident -- is Wayback going out of business. It's a way to share 'what they really said' back then. But if my sole purpose is to prove that I'm right and LeftTard slave to government is wrong...that's a big waste of time if the globalists are ACKSHULLY trying to render me dead. #readiness #metals #water #food #rounds #morewater
Very true. Yes Wayback is the only guardrail and "going out of business" might be a decision made for them. Unfortunately, besides the weirdoes that live in my house, few people will ever take enough personal responsibility to secure their digital lives for themselves.
Thanks M hope you are well 🙏
I'm an anxious ball of nerves... But managing!
Thank you Daniel
God Bless!!