There was a website that I had quoted a long time ago. The author said something like "when the robots are taking over the world, don't panic. Buy a robot." I loved it. So I linked to it on my old blog. Then years later, I went to the source only to find that the page returned a 404. So I linked to the wayback machine instead. But then, it was removed from the archive.org. I can't even remember the name of the website at this point, just that it had the word "café" in it.
Anyway, all this to say that since there are no sources for this quote, then I'm the new original source. You can quote me on that.
Long ago in Seattle there was a network of BBSs and the head board was called Rat City. They had a lot of work by local artists (mostly tracker files and digital artwork IIRC).
I have not been able to find a single hint of their existence. Everything about what was once a collection of artistic works, wiped from the earth.
We really need to do a better job managing our historical legacy.
In modern times, archive.org is an international treasure.
Which of course means it's facing major opposition from capital interests.
Apparently no one ever thought an incoming presidential administration would literally wipe gigabytes of government funded research results off the web.
Now we see in bold type how precarious is our democracy...
There was a website that I had quoted a long time ago. The author said something like "when the robots are taking over the world, don't panic. Buy a robot." I loved it. So I linked to it on my old blog. Then years later, I went to the source only to find that the page returned a 404. So I linked to the wayback machine instead. But then, it was removed from the archive.org. I can't even remember the name of the website at this point, just that it had the word "café" in it.
Anyway, all this to say that since there are no sources for this quote, then I'm the new original source. You can quote me on that.
https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/117370206/You-made-thisI-m...
Long ago in Seattle there was a network of BBSs and the head board was called Rat City. They had a lot of work by local artists (mostly tracker files and digital artwork IIRC).
I have not been able to find a single hint of their existence. Everything about what was once a collection of artistic works, wiped from the earth.
We really need to do a better job managing our historical legacy.
"Do you do backups too, for example to guard against corrupt data getting mirrored across both copies, or accidental deletion?"
John Gonzalez, Internet Archive infrastructure lead, replied:
"We have done experiments to confirm that we can back up large portions of our corpus... but this is not a regular practice for us at this time."
https://blog.archive.org/2016/10/25/20000-hard-drives-on-a-m...
In modern times, archive.org is an international treasure.
Which of course means it's facing major opposition from capital interests.
Apparently no one ever thought an incoming presidential administration would literally wipe gigabytes of government funded research results off the web.
Now we see in bold type how precarious is our democracy...
Is this the story of Johnny Rotten?