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Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure

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206 points rbanffy | 2 comments | 02 Apr 25 16:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Teever ◴[02 Apr 25 17:08 UTC] No.43558875[source]▶
I made this related submission[0] recently but it was flagged.

This stuff is very important to talk about so I hope that this submission by rbanffy isn't also flagged.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43543075

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donnachangstein ◴[02 Apr 25 17:26 UTC] No.43559085[source]▶
No it isn't. It's merely a cause du jour for data hoarders to justify their hobby in light of this Chicken Little hysteria.

30 years ago it was thought collecting every issue of magazines like TV Guide was important. No one even knows what that is anymore.

No one is ever going to look at 99% of this data. In the meantime, send more hard drives for my NAS!!

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1. thowawatp302 ◴[02 Apr 25 22:14 UTC] No.43562315[source]▶
I’ve had the idea of recreating tv channels on my plex server by using tv guide data from the late 90s early 00s

The insurmountable part of that project would be getting the guide data.

You don’t know what other people will want in the future

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2. Teever ◴[02 Apr 25 23:37 UTC] No.43563083[source]▶
That's a great idea.

There's are sites that stream old content with a old tube tv UI wrapped around the video frame but they don't have all the commercials and they don't follow the old schedules like you suggest.

I've got a friend who has hoarded digitized copies of VHS recordings of old cartoons from that era complete with the commercials, so the content is definitely out there.