https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/10/the-decaying-web-and-our-disappearing-history Safeguarding Humanity Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/10/the-decaying-web-and-our-disappearing-history#comment-155335 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:53:14 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=5594#comment-155335 What does this have to do with safeguarding Earth? I think you are on the wrong blog.

]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/10/the-decaying-web-and-our-disappearing-history#comment-154960 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 01:12:09 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=5594#comment-154960 A very important piece of early Internet history was lost in 2009 when Yahoo intentionally deleted 38 million personal websites (GeoCities). These were personal websites started in 1994 which incuded family histories, journals, poetry, etc., which many people permanently lost. To me this was the modern equivalent of the burning of the Alexandria Library. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoCities

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