#endangeredarchives — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #endangeredarchives, aggregated by home.social.
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Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/hackaday-how-gold-plastic-syndrome-is-killing-toys-and-game-consoles/ -
ABC 15: Disabled Marine veteran forced to sell rare 1,000-letter WWII archive to save his family. “A disabled Marine Corps veteran who spent more than a decade preserving a rare collection of over 1,000 World War II letters says he now has no choice but to sell it. Joseph ‘Joe’ Alosi, 100% service-connected disabled, says mounting medical bills, the loss of his home, and family crises have left […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/abc-15-disabled-marine-veteran-forced-to-sell-rare-1000-letter-wwii-archive-to-save-his-family/ -
ABC 15: Disabled Marine veteran forced to sell rare 1,000-letter WWII archive to save his family. “A disabled Marine Corps veteran who spent more than a decade preserving a rare collection of over 1,000 World War II letters says he now has no choice but to sell it. Joseph ‘Joe’ Alosi, 100% service-connected disabled, says mounting medical bills, the loss of his home, and family crises have left […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/abc-15-disabled-marine-veteran-forced-to-sell-rare-1000-letter-wwii-archive-to-save-his-family/ -
ABC 15: Disabled Marine veteran forced to sell rare 1,000-letter WWII archive to save his family. “A disabled Marine Corps veteran who spent more than a decade preserving a rare collection of over 1,000 World War II letters says he now has no choice but to sell it. Joseph ‘Joe’ Alosi, 100% service-connected disabled, says mounting medical bills, the loss of his home, and family crises have left […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/abc-15-disabled-marine-veteran-forced-to-sell-rare-1000-letter-wwii-archive-to-save-his-family/ -
ABC 15: Disabled Marine veteran forced to sell rare 1,000-letter WWII archive to save his family. “A disabled Marine Corps veteran who spent more than a decade preserving a rare collection of over 1,000 World War II letters says he now has no choice but to sell it. Joseph ‘Joe’ Alosi, 100% service-connected disabled, says mounting medical bills, the loss of his home, and family crises have left […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/abc-15-disabled-marine-veteran-forced-to-sell-rare-1000-letter-wwii-archive-to-save-his-family/ -
ABC 15: Disabled Marine veteran forced to sell rare 1,000-letter WWII archive to save his family. “A disabled Marine Corps veteran who spent more than a decade preserving a rare collection of over 1,000 World War II letters says he now has no choice but to sell it. Joseph ‘Joe’ Alosi, 100% service-connected disabled, says mounting medical bills, the loss of his home, and family crises have left […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/abc-15-disabled-marine-veteran-forced-to-sell-rare-1000-letter-wwii-archive-to-save-his-family/ -
Harvard Gazette: Time has not been kind to VHS. “After winning the battle for dominance with the Betamax cassette, the VHS ushered in an era of amateur filmmaking, home movie collections, and video store rentals. Recognizing the value of the new format, Harvard curators quickly began amassing materials on VHS. Though no single tally of Harvard’s VHS holdings exists, a 2018 count of […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/12/harvard-gazette-time-has-not-been-kind-to-vhs/ -
Without Why: The Hubert Dreyfus Audio Archive Project. “A massive trove of legendary lectures by philosopher Hubert L. Dreyfus is currently confined to aging cassette tapes in a closet in the Berkeley Hills. With your support, we can build a professionally curated audio archive that preserves this irreplaceable material and makes it accessible to new generations of listeners. Dreyfus’s ideas […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/25/without-why-the-hubert-dreyfus-audio-archive-project/ -
How-To Geek: Your Old Audio Cassette Collection Is Destroying Itself. “So, for some inexplicable reason, cassette tape collecting is now also a thing alongside vinyl. This time there aren’t even any arguments about analog sound quality, it just seems to be a vibe but, hey, you do you! However, if you’re building a cassette collection, or you have one from before, you should know that this form […]
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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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INFO 653 Knowledge Organization: Recovering Lost Media. “The Lost Media Wiki is a grassroots community lead project to track down and archive pieces of media (video, audio, video games, art, or printed) that have been lost or been made inaccessible to the public. Beginning in 2012 on its previous website, the wikia has grown into a massive cataloging initiative with a community of over 17,000 […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/24/info-653-knowledge-organization-recovering-lost-media/