#citizenarchivists — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #citizenarchivists, aggregated by home.social.
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BoingBoing: A retired geneticist built an online museum of electrical plugs. “A man with the delightful name of Oof Oud spent his career studying DNA and chromosomes at the University of Amsterdam. Then he retired and built the Museum of Plugs and Sockets — a sprawling website cataloging over a thousand electrical plugs and sockets from more than 25 countries.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/01/boingboing-a-retired-geneticist-built-an-online-museum-of-electrical-plugs/ -
What’s On Netflix: Stranger Things Radio Station ‘WSQK: The Squawk’ Archived by Fan After Going Offline . “Missed out on the live broadcast from Hawkins? A dedicated fan has archived the entire run of the Stranger Things Season 5 promotional radio station, WSQK, ensuring the 80s tunes and some hidden lore updates live on.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/31/whats-on-netflix-stranger-things-radio-station-wsqk-the-squawk-archived-by-fan-after-going-offline/ -
St. Louis Magazine: Moonlighting librarians save the RFT’s online archive from its post-porn purge. “A newly available digital archive that encompasses much of the recent history of the Riverfront Times went live yesterday. It is the brainchild of Joshua Lawrence and Jaclyn Crow, two St. Louisans with a passion for local history…. The database currently has about 2,000 articles from the […]
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St. Louis Magazine: Moonlighting librarians save the RFT’s online archive from its post-porn purge. “A newly available digital archive that encompasses much of the recent history of the Riverfront Times went live yesterday. It is the brainchild of Joshua Lawrence and Jaclyn Crow, two St. Louisans with a passion for local history…. The database currently has about 2,000 articles from the […]
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St. Louis Magazine: Moonlighting librarians save the RFT’s online archive from its post-porn purge. “A newly available digital archive that encompasses much of the recent history of the Riverfront Times went live yesterday. It is the brainchild of Joshua Lawrence and Jaclyn Crow, two St. Louisans with a passion for local history…. The database currently has about 2,000 articles from the […]
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St. Louis Magazine: Moonlighting librarians save the RFT’s online archive from its post-porn purge. “A newly available digital archive that encompasses much of the recent history of the Riverfront Times went live yesterday. It is the brainchild of Joshua Lawrence and Jaclyn Crow, two St. Louisans with a passion for local history…. The database currently has about 2,000 articles from the […]
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St. Louis Magazine: Moonlighting librarians save the RFT’s online archive from its post-porn purge. “A newly available digital archive that encompasses much of the recent history of the Riverfront Times went live yesterday. It is the brainchild of Joshua Lawrence and Jaclyn Crow, two St. Louisans with a passion for local history…. The database currently has about 2,000 articles from the […]
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The Standard (Hong Kong): Hong Kong activist investor David Webb to end Webb-site database in October . “In a post on his website, Webb said automated data collection would continue ‘as long as the code doesn’t break,’ and he will continue to put weekly dumps of the entire database and any software updates in the Webb-site Repository on Google Drive. He encouraged others to take forward parts […]
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Associated Press: Hair museum filled with century-old mementos closes its doors, scattering contents around the nation. “For about 30 years, this hair art collection in the Kansas City suburb of Independence attracted an eclectic group of gawkers that included the likes of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne. But the museum’s namesake, Leila Cohoon, died last November at the age of 92. Now her […]
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Marist University: World’s Largest Rowing Archive Finds a Home at Marist. “For over five decades, Thomas E. Weil Jr. pursued a passion that would eventually create the world’s largest collection on rowing history. Today, that legacy has found its permanent home in the Archives and Special Collections at Marist… The collection consists of over 10,000 items, including more than 2,300 books, […]
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TechSpot: AnandTech’s 27-year archive has vanished, but someone uploaded a 74 GB backup. “The thousands of articles from AnandTech’s 27-year history are still accessible through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, but they are no longer properly indexed…. Fortunately, a complete unofficial 74 GB archive is available for download, and users are attempting to clone the site at […]
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TechSpot: AnandTech’s 27-year archive has vanished, but someone uploaded a 74 GB backup. “The thousands of articles from AnandTech’s 27-year history are still accessible through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, but they are no longer properly indexed…. Fortunately, a complete unofficial 74 GB archive is available for download, and users are attempting to clone the site at […]
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TechSpot: AnandTech’s 27-year archive has vanished, but someone uploaded a 74 GB backup. “The thousands of articles from AnandTech’s 27-year history are still accessible through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, but they are no longer properly indexed…. Fortunately, a complete unofficial 74 GB archive is available for download, and users are attempting to clone the site at […]
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TechSpot: AnandTech’s 27-year archive has vanished, but someone uploaded a 74 GB backup. “The thousands of articles from AnandTech’s 27-year history are still accessible through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, but they are no longer properly indexed…. Fortunately, a complete unofficial 74 GB archive is available for download, and users are attempting to clone the site at […]
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TechSpot: AnandTech’s 27-year archive has vanished, but someone uploaded a 74 GB backup. “The thousands of articles from AnandTech’s 27-year history are still accessible through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, but they are no longer properly indexed…. Fortunately, a complete unofficial 74 GB archive is available for download, and users are attempting to clone the site at […]
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ABS-CBN: Resurrecting nostalgia: Archiving to preserve history before it’s too late. “In the age of streaming, it’s hard to imagine not being able to watch a film again after its theatrical run, or a show after it has aired on television. But almost half a century ago, this was the reality faced by then-high school student Dann Garcia. He observed at the time the dearth in the available […]
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Print: ‘Queer Happened Here’ Unearths a Century of NYC’s Underground Queer Spaces. “Writer, historian, and New York native Marc Zinaman identified this absence in the chronicling of the city’s queer community, and decided to do something about it. He began an Instagram account in 2021, @queer_happened_here, as a resource and community hub on which to document and archive gay spaces […]
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Terence Eden: You don’t need an API key to archive Twitter Data. “Apparently there’s no need for IP laws any more, so here’s a way to archive high-fidelity Twitter data without signing up for an expensive API key. This is perfect for academics wishing to preserve Tweets, journalists wanting to download evidence, or simply embedding content without leaking user data back to Twitter.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/16/terence-eden-you-dont-need-an-api-key-to-archive-twitter-data/
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Vulture: The List Keepers. “Over the years, people in the middle of the crisis started keeping their own lists of the lost — those records were small personal acts of grief and tribute. Giving the dressers, the hairstylists, the assistant stage managers, the junior choreographers, the chorus boys, the makeup artists, the rehearsal pianists, the accountants, and the pit musicians who died […]
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Vulture: The List Keepers. “Over the years, people in the middle of the crisis started keeping their own lists of the lost — those records were small personal acts of grief and tribute. Giving the dressers, the hairstylists, the assistant stage managers, the junior choreographers, the chorus boys, the makeup artists, the rehearsal pianists, the accountants, and the pit musicians who died […]
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Vulture: The List Keepers. “Over the years, people in the middle of the crisis started keeping their own lists of the lost — those records were small personal acts of grief and tribute. Giving the dressers, the hairstylists, the assistant stage managers, the junior choreographers, the chorus boys, the makeup artists, the rehearsal pianists, the accountants, and the pit musicians who died […]
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Vulture: The List Keepers. “Over the years, people in the middle of the crisis started keeping their own lists of the lost — those records were small personal acts of grief and tribute. Giving the dressers, the hairstylists, the assistant stage managers, the junior choreographers, the chorus boys, the makeup artists, the rehearsal pianists, the accountants, and the pit musicians who died […]
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Vulture: The List Keepers. “Over the years, people in the middle of the crisis started keeping their own lists of the lost — those records were small personal acts of grief and tribute. Giving the dressers, the hairstylists, the assistant stage managers, the junior choreographers, the chorus boys, the makeup artists, the rehearsal pianists, the accountants, and the pit musicians who died […]