The david graeber interview at https://youtu.be/jHx5rePmz2Y is simultaneously lovely and frustrating.
Yeah. 2008-2012 or so was an awful period for personal archiving. Interesting data growing fast, convenient storage not so much.
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I had a "USB to bare PATA drive" adapter for system recovery, and then used spare hard drives for backup since I had the adapter.
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I've been digging thru HDDs, CDs, and DVDs from 2005-2011 trying to recover worthwhile stuff onto reasonable storage. Huge task. So far it all fits on a single $36 thumb drive.
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I have a similar forensic trawl on my todo list, except mine goes back to 1992. (Stuff before that was Amiga/c64, unreadable formats.)
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Much earlier and there was no USB or CDR, so it's isolated to a few HDs, mostly still in their boxes.
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Actually I forgot I have a couple Bernoulli drive disks/carts with corrupted Stacker volumes containing (potentially) fragments of long-lost archives of DOOM modding history.
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The 2018 version of this hell is having stuff on vps instances you forgot you're still paying for...
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I'm a child of the 8-bit world. "This too shall pass" got burned into us real early. You trust a web host to stay solvent?
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I don't quite trust http://archive.org to not have a big fire/flood/theft/meteor/terrorist/lawsuit. Library of Congress maybe.
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That's why https://landley.net/history/mirror is local mirror not http://archive.org links: buy old domain, add robots.txt, retroactively gone.
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