Safeguard Historical Information, in Multiple Places, not just in the cloud, ... share records, photos, etc., with friends who'd do the same.

submitted by HugodeCrevellier from self.history

The internet is being purged of any/all information that does not comply with current ideological diktats. Pinterest, for example, is censoring, no, erasing(!) any/all information (e.g. photos from WWII) documenting acts and events that disprove much of the widespread pseudo-historical (Hollywood-ized) bullshit that passes for 'history' today. Wikipedia may not be far behind. As for search engines like Google, they seem to only return ideologically-correct appropriate (compromised) results. So, if you have any records, texts, photos, etc., you need to make copies on your own drives/servers, to print them, etc. Whatever is left of History needs to somehow be preserved.

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[–]hfxB0oyA 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We need to become the Foundation.

[–]LordBeetusRises 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Google has erased bookmarks of mine, links I've saved in notes, links I've sent to others (found out when apple users still had the link in our text history but Android users didn't, including my own texts), and probably other stuff I haven't noticed. The even removed the ability to find a peer reviewed study on their search engine, even though I was able to find it through other search engines. I won't even get political and go into the topic, but it's pretty obvious what the agenda was.

[–]SoCo 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I believe I've caught Wikipedia removing page histories as well as the Wayback machine removing history.

Hard drive space has gotten quite cheap. It's time to be your own archive. Just archive a copy of everything you read, because what you read today might be gone tomorrow....or silently modified.

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

No, not in the cloud. The cloud is just someone else's hard drive, that is no way to backup important data. If you want to archive I recommend a good HDD, NOT an SSD, as they have a much longer lifespan, and SSD's start to lose data after a few years without any power applied to them where an HDD can go decades

[–]hfxB0oyA 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What ever happened to those atomic and holographic drives that were supposed to revolutionize long term storage?

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

Idk, never really heard anything about that, only some far off ideas about using DNA

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dna-the-ultimate-data-storage-solution/

[–]hfxB0oyA 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah yes, I'd heard of that as well.