ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack - YouTube
Jason’s rip-roaring presentation from Defcon last year.
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent
A blog devoted to sifting through the gems in the Geocities torrent. This is digital archeology.
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The Deleted City
This is quite beautiful. An interactive piece that allows you to dig through the ruins of Geocities like an archeologist.
Such wanton destruction! I’ll never forgive those twunts at Yahoo.
Fuckers.
James Bridle on Phare Conference on Vimeo
Everything is worth preserving and protecting.
The race to save our online lives from a digital dark age | MIT Technology Review
For many archivists, alarm bells are ringing. Across the world, they are scraping up defunct websites or at-risk data collections to save as much of our digital lives as possible. Others are working on ways to store that data in formats that will last hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of years.
Canadian Typography Archives
Go spelunking down the archives to find some lovely graphic design artefacts.
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Tears in the rain
All of these moments will be lost in time.
The Death and Life of Geocities
Geocities is no longer here for you to use.
A Few Notes on A Few Notes on The Culture
Making a copy of a web page which is a copy of a newsgroup post by Iain M Banks. 1994::2001::2021
Ordinary plenty
Preserving the habitual, the banal.
The tragedy of the commons
Digital destruction courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum.