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YouTube, Wikipedia, and Archive.org are the modern day library of Alexandria (sh.itjust.works)

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Had this thought the other day and tbh it's horrifying to think about the implications of one, or God forbid all, of them going down.
Stackoverflow too but that only applies to nerds haha

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

You can’t rely on YouTube videos staying up over time.

Better download what you want might want to look up again

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Can't count on the library of Alexandria staying up over time either

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

I think we also overestimate the valve if what would have been at Alexandria.

Considering everything would have been hand copied/transcribed back then, and his expensive that would have been, the selection bias would be massive.

I doubt it could compare to Wikipedia.