I'm very tired and irrtated with this community
Aug 23, 2023 22:08:36 GMT
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Post by lrminji523 on Aug 23, 2023 22:08:36 GMT
I used to hate all the half-assed "searches" for internet media. But I've come to realize that they're probably the best things to search for around here. Professional archivists and historians put in a bunch of hard work to restore and preserve older stuff on film, tape, press, or physical artifacts for the future. They've got all that covered, even if some people want to put them down for it. And bigger companies often keep great archives of their old junk (I don't really like Disney, but they keep a mean archive.)
But no one is currently doing that for stuff on the internet - there's no "internet historians" going around recording all this stuff for future generations. And to imagine in, like, 30 years when we want to look back on our childhood favorites and they're just nonexistent through all the website shuffles... I don't want that to happen.
Archive it all! Even if it's literal dog excrement, that's someone's childhood right there! HAHAHAHAHA!
...I think I'm going a bit too far. It's unlikely to find a lot of obscure internet things, but there's a much higher possibility of it showing up than a lot of other obscure things out there. You never know what somebody saved.
I do wish some folks had a little more common sense. Yes, that video may not be on YouTube anymore. Have you tried looking through Archive? Vimeo? Dailymotion? Is it easily purchasable on eBay or Amazon? What are you sitting around talking for?! Buy it and try to rip it if you can! Maybe whoever created it has social media somewhere you can privately contact *hint hint wink nudge*
I only jest. But still. Patience is a virtue. Try not to get all hissy if something doesn't happen or if someone doesn't reply right away.
And for all the other weird stuff, they can keep looking for it. Plenty of people are interested in closing logos or bumpers or whatnot, and they can keep on doing that. If you'd want to see more searches for big-type things, you have to make that happen. I'm sure there's other people around here who'd love to get involved with things like that.
But no one is currently doing that for stuff on the internet - there's no "internet historians" going around recording all this stuff for future generations. And to imagine in, like, 30 years when we want to look back on our childhood favorites and they're just nonexistent through all the website shuffles... I don't want that to happen.
Archive it all! Even if it's literal dog excrement, that's someone's childhood right there! HAHAHAHAHA!
...I think I'm going a bit too far. It's unlikely to find a lot of obscure internet things, but there's a much higher possibility of it showing up than a lot of other obscure things out there. You never know what somebody saved.
I do wish some folks had a little more common sense. Yes, that video may not be on YouTube anymore. Have you tried looking through Archive? Vimeo? Dailymotion? Is it easily purchasable on eBay or Amazon? What are you sitting around talking for?! Buy it and try to rip it if you can! Maybe whoever created it has social media somewhere you can privately contact *hint hint wink nudge*
I only jest. But still. Patience is a virtue. Try not to get all hissy if something doesn't happen or if someone doesn't reply right away.
And for all the other weird stuff, they can keep looking for it. Plenty of people are interested in closing logos or bumpers or whatnot, and they can keep on doing that. If you'd want to see more searches for big-type things, you have to make that happen. I'm sure there's other people around here who'd love to get involved with things like that.
