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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Only downside is that only data that people care about right now is being saved. But what seems useless now might become valuable in the future. It's hard to grasp how much data has been forgotten on some old computers, or some CDs, or websites that have gone dark.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I really hope the Internet Archive survive their lawsuits. They're important not just for archival of websites (the Wayback Machine) but also of books, audio recordings, etc. There's a large amount of old content that's only archived at the Internet Archive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's hard to imagine how much data is lost on old notepads, journals, even personal voice recordings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I want my journal to die with me. It's got a lot of painfully honest stuff that could hurt the people I love.