Ranamar: I guarantee you that after January 2000 rolled through, they overwrote the December 1999 backups, and when January 2001 rolled through, they overwrote the December 2000 backups, though.

:dons librarian hat: Digital preservation is more expensive than preserving paper; it takes more staff, active attention, and consistent computing resources. Libraries have discussed “digital dark age” since the 1990s. Corp archives often 1st to go b/c suits haven’t figured out how to profit.

One of the interesting things about the Internet is that we’re actually living through a dark age. Future historians are unlikely to have records of this period. Paper and ink last. Digital storage, less so. variety.com/2024/tv/news...

Comedy Central’s Website Purges 25 Years of Video Clips and Other Contentvariety.com The vast repository of content on Comedy Central's website has been removed by Paramount Global, in a move to push fans to Paramount+.

It's not a technological problem either - we have tape and optical discs that are designed to last for decades. It's all a matter of will, and like you mentioned, the only motivator these days is profit

Weird how everyone was ok with the solutions for this when they had to have backups in case of y2k

I guarantee you that after January 2000 rolled through, they overwrote the December 1999 backups, and when January 2001 rolled through, they overwrote the December 2000 backups, though.

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