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Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th
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Nah, I can't see Yahoo Answers being migrated to Quora.
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RIP
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I know Orwell is overused, but I think this is the future of the internet :
Any word on if some group is planning to archive it?
It's been hitting me harder recently for some reason how much stuff is going away, like in the back of my head I guess I thought some stuff would just be around forever in some archive and it's just not... Plus so many of these archival projects are kinda scrappy or like one person maintaining it. It's making me thinking more about making my own backups for stuff.
It's been hitting me harder recently for some reason how much stuff is going away, like in the back of my head I guess I thought some stuff would just be around forever in some archive and it's just not... Plus so many of these archival projects are kinda scrappy or like one person maintaining it. It's making me thinking more about making my own backups for stuff.
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you know things have gotten really fucking dire when we're mourning the death of yahoo answers, everything we once loved or mocked is getting fucking annihilated by soulless corporate interests
archiveteam, probably
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How will we learn how babby is formed?
Think of it in terms of the wild west and how it was once a frontier but was eventually tamed, the internet was a digital frontier and now they're building more and more railroads and bringing more and more ways to tame it.
It's sad that we never got to the cyberpunk untamed VR internet before the clamp was brought down, now there's always going to be hackers and the like, but you'll be going up against the law if you want the internet to be anything but brainwashing.
Next time mankind will ever know freedom like that again will be the space frontier, assuming we actually make it out there.
Anything that was once fun about the internet is getting systematically scrubbed out in favor of turning it into a Big Brother brainwashing machines.
Think of it in terms of the wild west and how it was once a frontier but was eventually tamed, the internet was a digital frontier and now they're building more and more railroads and bringing more and more ways to tame it.
It's sad that we never got to the cyberpunk untamed VR internet before the clamp was brought down, now there's always going to be hackers and the like, but you'll be going up against the law if you want the internet to be anything but brainwashing.
Next time mankind will ever know freedom like that again will be the space frontier, assuming we actually make it out there.
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How will I find threads made by twelve year-olds trying to get high off of the medicine cabinet??
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Man I haven’t browsed through those since like 2005 or so. Used to get a kick out of the crazy shit people would ask. Another piece of old school internet dead, sucks
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In case you ever want to selfhost your own version of WaybackMachine, boom bitch!
Personally if I want to archive a site and it has useful information I just turn it into a PDF, so it can at least be loaded on phones and tablets.
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This is an example of how the modern world will go dark. No seriously. With no permanent means of informational storage and events likes these will lead to a new dark age.
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I'd say this would be much more likely in the case of a massive solar flare/emp event rather than the natural passage of time, as there are enough people archiving relatively important information to prevent a massive lack of information in the future. But seeing as I'm pretty sure archivists aren't shoving their backup drives into lead cabinets, if something were to happen all of that data would go bye bye.
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With current era censorship and various retro tech no longer accessible?
No there's going be a huge gap. Archivists are not what you call your everyday normie.
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The autists will be the people to save that kind of stuff. There's people who manufacture new pieces for old tech still. As we go forward it will only become easier to do so as home manufacturing tech becomes more affordable - that is if governments don't clamp down on that harder.
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Nintendo wii. Used to have a central server. Now it's erased and so has everything else. Wow. Wolfram. Streaming services. Computer cloud. For profit and monopoly reasons everything going to go on a central server and when that goes.... All the knowledge will too.
If I had money I'd buy yahoo answers. Knowing what questions people ask over and over again over long period of time gotta be useful for something
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This makes me really sad. Yahoo answers was a classic and had so much good content. I hadn't seen in in a while but it was a great site. I wouldn't be surprised if it was killed off by google in search results so they could promote other shit instead. Its really another sign of how the internet has gone to shit in recent years
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Yahoo Answers served me well when dealing with physics. Now if you want answers or even help with homework, all that pops up besides Yahoo Answers is paywalled sites like Chegg. Not saying the Chegg mafia caused Yahoo answers to shut down, but it sure is convenient for all these paid services that the free alternatives are shutting down.
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Nintendo wii stuff backed up by homebrew community. Server side games are one thing where it's just the companies fault entirely that there's no way for the community to archive that shit, but it's always because the company never gives the data out that's necessary to create a revival project. In those situations the information was never available to the public and likely never would be barring a hacker just ripping it from their servers.
Wolfram as in the online calculator? The math knowledge likely already exists outside of it. If that is what you mean. Streaming services, barring game streaming platforms, can practically have everything ripped off of them with a raw video recorder hooked into whatever device you are viewing the content on. Of course this is getting more and more restricted, but it's all still archivable and I would bet most of it has been by pirates.
Most of this stuff will not be lost. The bad part is it getting obfuscated through time once there is no longer any money behind it.
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