#digitalimpermanence — Public Fediverse posts

Michigan Daily: Your digital footprint is worth looking back on. “Think of the last time you had a Snapchat memory flashback pop up as a notification or scrolled through your Instagram archived posts. Usually, there’s an instant flash of embarrassment that often makes us treat our past selves like something to hide or erase indefinitely. There’s a modern impulse to scrub our digital […]

Michigan Daily: Your digital footprint is worth looking back on. “Think of the last time you had a Snapchat memory flashback pop up as a notification or scrolled through your Instagram archived posts. Usually, there’s an instant flash of embarrassment that often makes us treat our past selves like something to hide or erase indefinitely. There’s a modern impulse to scrub our digital […]

Michigan Daily: Your digital footprint is worth looking back on. “Think of the last time you had a Snapchat memory flashback pop up as a notification or scrolled through your Instagram archived posts. Usually, there’s an instant flash of embarrassment that often makes us treat our past selves like something to hide or erase indefinitely. There’s a modern impulse to scrub our digital […]

Michigan Daily: Your digital footprint is worth looking back on. “Think of the last time you had a Snapchat memory flashback pop up as a notification or scrolled through your Instagram archived posts. Usually, there’s an instant flash of embarrassment that often makes us treat our past selves like something to hide or erase indefinitely. There’s a modern impulse to scrub our digital […]

Michigan Daily: Your digital footprint is worth looking back on. “Think of the last time you had a Snapchat memory flashback pop up as a notification or scrolled through your Instagram archived posts. Usually, there’s an instant flash of embarrassment that often makes us treat our past selves like something to hide or erase indefinitely. There’s a modern impulse to scrub our digital […]

International Business Times: Music, Video Games and News Archives Are Vanishing From Public Access, Internet Archive Report Finds. “Decades of music journalism and a huge slice of video game history have quietly disappeared from public access in recent years, according to a new Internet Archive report on cultural preservation. Titled Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record, […]

BBC: The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games. “Can a company take away something you’ve already paid for? In the world of online video games, some already do. Publishers can decide to switch off a game’s servers, often leaving it effectively unplayable. Stop Killing Games, a growing consumer rights campaign started by American YouTuber Ross Scott in 2024, is challenging […]

Ars Technica: Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals. “When thousands of pages started disappearing from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website late last week, public health researchers quickly moved to archive deleted public health data. Soon, researchers discovered that the Internet Archive (IA) offers one of the most effective ways to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/15/ars-technica-internet-archive-played-crucial-role-in-tracking-shady-cdc-data-removals/

All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive https://eotarchive.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_Term_Web_Archive

https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/end-of-term-web-archive/

National Archives blog post: https://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2024/06/24/announcing-the-2024-end-of-term-web-archive-initiative

Library of Congress blog post: https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2024/07/nominations-sought-for-the-2024-2025-u-s-federal-government-domain-end-of-term-web-archive/

GitHub: https://github.com/end-of-term/eot2024
Internet Archive collection page: https://archive.org/details/EndofTermWebCrawls

#bigdata #contentremoval #datasets #digitalimpermanence #governmentdatasets #Politics #trumpadministration

404 Media: Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov. “As people in the Data Hoarding and archiving communities have pointed out, on January 21, there were 307,854 datasets on data.gov. As of Thursday, there are 305,564 datasets. Many of the deletions happened immediately after Trump was inaugurated, according to snapshots of the website saved […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/02/404-media-archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/