Cory Salveson on Tue, 24 May 2016 08:51:39 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> artfcity: Turbulence.org Going Offline |
Has anyone contacted Archive Team (http://www.archiveteam.org) or Archive.org (https://archive.org) about this yet? Note these are distinct entities. Archive Team was a leader in (though by no means the sole force behind) the archiving of GeoCities to, among other places, the largest (for a while at least, not sure about now) torrent on the Pirate Bay ( http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6353395/Geocities_-_The_PATCHED_Torrent ), making possible such projects as "One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age" ( http://blog.geocities.institute/).The torrent is 600+ GB, the project more (in my view) than "just" a museum. Even if it were, museums are important, too. Anyway, with 8TB external HDDs only a few hundred USD now, then even at a few TBs, surely 1 or 2 people could get a backup, torrented or otherwise, so the site isn't completely lost? Virtualization is always a possibility down the line if a full server backup were possible. Forgive me if all this has already been discussed, or if I'm misunderstanding where the conversation is at on all this; I just wanted to offer some specific ideas and possibilities in case they hadn't been considered yet. There's perhaps a conservative impulse behind wanting to preserve history like this, but it's a worthy one in this case, especially as the Internet continues to mutate in ways that make its prior existences seem more and more like a dream. Cory Salveson @argotechnica # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: