#digitalimpermanence — Public Fediverse posts

Spotted on Bluesky: the BET.com Article Explorer. From the About page: “In September 2026, BET removed its news archive from bet.com — more than two decades of reporting on Black culture, politics, music and public life, gone from the live web. The articles themselves survived, because the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine had been capturing them all along. This site makes those captures […]

Spotted on Bluesky: the BET.com Article Explorer. From the About page: “In September 2026, BET removed its news archive from bet.com — more than two decades of reporting on Black culture, politics, music and public life, gone from the live web. The articles themselves survived, because the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine had been capturing them all along. This site makes those captures […]

Spotted on Bluesky: the BET.com Article Explorer. From the About page: “In September 2026, BET removed its news archive from bet.com — more than two decades of reporting on Black culture, politics, music and public life, gone from the live web. The articles themselves survived, because the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine had been capturing them all along. This site makes those captures […]

Spotted on Bluesky: the BET.com Article Explorer. From the About page: “In September 2026, BET removed its news archive from bet.com — more than two decades of reporting on Black culture, politics, music and public life, gone from the live web. The articles themselves survived, because the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine had been capturing them all along. This site makes those captures […]

Spotted on Bluesky: the BET.com Article Explorer. From the About page: “In September 2026, BET removed its news archive from bet.com — more than two decades of reporting on Black culture, politics, music and public life, gone from the live web. The articles themselves survived, because the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine had been capturing them all along. This site makes those captures […]

NiemanLab: More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism. “Our new analysis shows that more than 340 local news sites across the United States are now limiting the Internet Archive’s ability to access and preserve their stories. Many sites in our sample are owned by five of the seven largest local news publishers in the country: USA Today […]

Ars Technica: BioWare’s Anthem will soon be completely unplayable. “We’ll admit that we weren’t paying enough attention to the state of Anthem—BioWare’s troubled 2019 jetpack-powered open-world shooter—to notice EA’s July announcement that it was planning to shut down the game’s servers. But with that planned server shutdown now just a week away, we thought it was worth alerting […]

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 […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/08/techspot-anandtechs-27-year-archive-has-vanished-but-someone-uploaded-a-74-gb-backup/

SFGATE: MLB curiously removes A’s ‘reverse boycott’ game broadcasts from digital archive. “It’s been two years since Oakland A’s fans joined forces to make one of the loudest statements possible with a ‘reverse boycott,’ showing out in force to a Tuesday night game to protest against A’s owner John Fisher and his plan to move the team. Now, on the two-year anniversary of the forceful […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/16/sfgate-mlb-curiously-removes-as-reverse-boycott-game-broadcasts-from-digital-archive/

TechSpot: Most online games are now dead, Stop Killing Games proponents say. “Stop Killing Games is pushing back against mandatory online requirements that turn perfectly functional games into self-destructing time bombs. While petitions are ongoing, activists have compiled a list of titles that have already shut down because of publishers’ short-sighted greediness.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/29/techspot-most-online-games-are-now-dead-stop-killing-games-proponents-say/