The internet’s memory is fading in front of us. Preserve what you can.

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[–]cant_even 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Personal mass storage has never been cheaper. If you want to keep it, download it.

"Cloud" = Big Brother. The 'internet' was invented by government contractors: they weren't working for 'you'.

[–]In-the-clouds 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Imgur, the default image host for Saidit, made a change, according to this article....

will begin removing “old, unused and inactive content that is not tied to a user account

[–]newguy 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I used to think the internet was a place that remembered everything forever. I now see it's a place that remembers everything until the moment the server bills stop being paid.

[–]package 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The vast majority of internet history was lost around 10 years ago when google started purging their cache of old pages and stopped using cached versions of existing pages to supplement search results.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

That's not quite "lost", just very very hard to find.

Search engines in the last few years especially have been almost useless.

[–]package 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

No it really was lost; you might be too young to remember I guess but it used to be that when you googled stuff there would be results as far back as the early 2000s, with many of those existing only as cached versions. You could also get results referring to multiple different cached copies of the same page.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Google doesn't have authority over the entire internet, all it can do is pull things from its search engine.

[–]package 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I am saying that it indexed and had searchable cached versions of content from the extremely early internet long after such content no longer existed. Stuff that archive.org doesn't have.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They still do that, but it does disappear soon enough. Probably copyright bullshit.