>>51714698>>51714709yeah man, exactly
I’m the original anon (who ended up spending 2 hours dissecting the 9/11 response thread in Azure instead of paying attention to the thread lol); I absolutely love shit like this and it’s so fascinating looking at it now.
So many old sites are half-operational at best; every other link is a 404 or a redirect, while what remains is so genuine and unabashedly self-expressive that it’s just
I don’t know how to describe it. Kind of childish, but in that good way where you don’t give a shit about what others think and just wanna share the cool stuff on your mind and talk about how cool it is.
Almost nobody takes internet preservation seriously nowadays and it’s scary. From what I can gather it’s definitely more of a thing now than it used to be (“once it’s on the internet it’s there forever” is a sad lie, man) but it’s still not enough for the majority to care beyond some clickbait YouTube video every once in a while.
Kind of sucks; I’m like 18, just barely over the cusp of even being allowed to post here, I wasn’t around for most of this stuff. I can’t imagine what it was like. From what I hear, it was far more whimsical. Kinda jealous, haha. At least I can try to look back and try to figure it out myself. Gathering a small army of bookmarks and .htmls is better than leaving it to rot.
>>51714879would love something like this. So much
