#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 […]

New York Times: After 31 Years, a Quirky Gay Gossip Website Shuts Down. This link goes to a gift article. “At around 5 p.m. on July 30, one day ahead of schedule, the DataLounge, a long-running online forum that became a gathering spot for (mostly) gay men, went dark. Just like that, tens of millions of posts spanning more than three decades simply disappeared.”

New York Times: After 31 Years, a Quirky Gay Gossip Website Shuts Down. This link goes to a gift article. “At around 5 p.m. on July 30, one day ahead of schedule, the DataLounge, a long-running online forum that became a gathering spot for (mostly) gay men, went dark. Just like that, tens of millions of posts spanning more than three decades simply disappeared.”

New York Times: After 31 Years, a Quirky Gay Gossip Website Shuts Down. This link goes to a gift article. “At around 5 p.m. on July 30, one day ahead of schedule, the DataLounge, a long-running online forum that became a gathering spot for (mostly) gay men, went dark. Just like that, tens of millions of posts spanning more than three decades simply disappeared.”

New York Times: After 31 Years, a Quirky Gay Gossip Website Shuts Down. This link goes to a gift article. “At around 5 p.m. on July 30, one day ahead of schedule, the DataLounge, a long-running online forum that became a gathering spot for (mostly) gay men, went dark. Just like that, tens of millions of posts spanning more than three decades simply disappeared.”

New York Times: After 31 Years, a Quirky Gay Gossip Website Shuts Down. This link goes to a gift article. “At around 5 p.m. on July 30, one day ahead of schedule, the DataLounge, a long-running online forum that became a gathering spot for (mostly) gay men, went dark. Just like that, tens of millions of posts spanning more than three decades simply disappeared.”

Tom’s Hardware: Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots. “The internet is getting harder to archive because the AI boom has caused a storage crisis, with both NAND and mechanical […]

The Gamer: Halo Fan Project Has Archived Millions Of Old Gamertags, Stats. “As part of a sweeping sunset, 343 Studios, now rebranded to Halo Studios, announced back in 2021 that Halo 3, along with Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, Halo 4, Halo Wars, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, and Spartan Assault would all have their servers shutdown, though the offline campaign functionality remained. That […]