Brooke Binkowski: Most of my career is gone without a trace that it ever existed, it's very disturbing to contemplate

Most of my career is gone without a trace that it ever existed, it's very disturbing to contemplate

New report from Pew finds 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later. This research underscores how critical web archiving efforts are. www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

When Online Content Disappearswww.pewresearch.org A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.

I'm rewatching Girls (husband's first time) and Hannah writing for a blogsite a la Gawker/Jezebel feels like such a distant time capsule. When blogs could launch careers and books, wowie!

I literally went to college for journalism with this career path in mind, it was still a thing when I graduated high school. By junior year I had changed majors because the industry had collapsed so abruptly and completely I felt hopeless about my prospects.

The articles I wrote for tech mags in the 90s and 2000s are -- some of them -- on an archive site (with a broken search engine) run by a company who I presume bought out those publishers, many years ago. The mags themselves are gone (except for my collection of paper copies!)

Yeah I archived a lot of my radio and TV work but so much of my print and text stuff is just gone. I'm in shock that so much disappeared so fast and everyone is just accepting it

Terrifying how much is just gone. Not my own work, but I got into a habit of PDF-printing EVERY useful webpage. There was an article on an obscure feature of MS Word that I needed to use, and I saved the PDF on a Friday, and the website was gone on Monday when I went to send link to a friend.

Idea for a browser add-in: goes through your bookmarks one by one and prints everything to PDF.

My Documents folder on my desktop is the result of me doing basically this. I found PDF of an article in 2011: “how to steal like an artist.” It’s so so so useful. Anyway, you can actually open a URL in Acrobat to create a PDF and bypass the web browser entirely.

Acrobat Reader? No kidding??

Pocket gets pretty close to achieving this!

Pinboard.in also has an archive model.

Welcome to Pinboard—Social bookmarking for introverts!pinboard.in

You should see where the railroad's archives ended up, and in what state.

State as in "condition" or as in "US state"?

More the former; there had been floods...

Imagine the career at InfoWorld you could now slap on your resume and none the wiser

i'm so sorry. are they available on the way back machine?

I worry a lot about the impact of that on history :-/

Me too and also I strongly believe it's deliberate

Absolutely hard same.

The main villainous figure of my favorite ever video game erases the historical record in the post apocalypse because he doesn't want the fact that it was all his fault to be remembered. I guess that was prophecy, or maybe someone looked at it and went "hey a roadmap".

I feel like that describes more than a couple of video game villains tbh.

Hate Plus, right?

Horizon: Zero Dawn

Who controls the past controls the future.

:-/

That absolutely sucks. Is it not on the wayback machine even?

I'm sure a lot of that is My Space stuff that will not change anyone's life for having been archived.

She is talking about her career as a professional journalist. What are you talking about?

Forcontext, I recommend the classic 1961 Hal Draper short scifi story, 6 pages: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Fnd_... It links to a copy: folk.universitetetioslo.no/knuthe/kurio...

MS Fnd in a Lbry - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

All of my pre-transition professional work is only available via the wayback machine, now.

This is why I won’t work in the gaming industry ever again. I worked for two years on a cool little mobile game. It was released, did not blow up, and then was taken off the servers and poof! Two years of my life… gone. At least my animation work is on YouTube somewhere.

You might want to find "somewhere" and save a copy. YouTube videos vanish all the time.

I have everything on a backup drive

“The internet is forever.”

I guess one good thing is that my old blogs aren't widely accessible any more. They aren't scandalous, just cringe and depressing in retrospect

I have most my work from Star Trek Lower Decks on blu ray cuz thankfully they release them. But like the other half of my career is on Solar Opposites which is only streaming on Hulu. I really want an archive of it cuz the internet is scary for preservation

They aren’t putting Solar on disc?!

They haven’t yet.

Do they not want my money?

This....can be done. >_> <_<

👀

Look into a program called Stream Fab. I don't trust licensing to protect media I've bought, so I use it to "protect my investment" in media that is only available on streaming. If I can't get it physically, I'll certainly find a way to make it physical.

Times like this I am glad my pro writing is largely on microfiche at the State Capitol.

Not that I or anyone in the world is ever going to go look for it there but I am archived.

You never know. I secretly rescued the newspaper archives my grandpa, who was the publisher and had at that thing undiagnosed Alzheimer's, was tossing out. I didn't think anybody else would care but they meant everything to me, they were what I grew up reading (journalism is a family business)...

...turned out that the local historical society absolutely wanted them. I rescued them in 1995, and just found this event recently. Seeing my grandpa's paper described as "cherished" makes me so proud in ways I can't describe. You never know where your work will turn up or whose life it will change

January 4 2024 History Alive Lecture Series Presents: The Lemon Grove Review Project -Preserving Local History Through Digitization – Lemon Grove Historical Societylghistorical.org

At that time * not at that thing. And Lemon Grove's history is crucial to understanding the rest of the nation's. School desegregation began here

The Lemon Grove Incident – Lemon Grove Historical Societylghistorical.org

🥰 Brooke, you have brightened my day!

Oh that’s wonderful!

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