https://digitalwriting.site/2024/10/04/abandonware-and-my-fears/ Experiments in Digital Content Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:30:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://digitalwriting.site/2024/10/04/abandonware-and-my-fears/#comment-499 Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:30:10 +0000 https://digitalwriting.site/?p=1449#comment-499 A very inspiring post! It is really scary to think that some things could (and have) disappeared on the internet. Your point about a community upholding/ensuring the longevity of content is so true. It was only thanks to people taking Vines and putting them on YouTube that we still have access to them. If no one had cared, that digital content would be gone. It is so important to take steps to learn how to save and make your content accessible in the case of change. This is part of the reason why I am fond of physical copies. I don’t care what it is, but if it is anywhere remotely important, I print it out. Yes, I know that physical copies can be lost or destroyed just like digital files can, but I have lost digital files WAY more than a physical copy.
Great post!

]]> https://digitalwriting.site/2024/10/04/abandonware-and-my-fears/#comment-486 Sat, 05 Oct 2024 04:30:57 +0000 https://digitalwriting.site/?p=1449#comment-486 I cannot overstate just how much I agree with you. You’re entirely correct, whether or not something is remembered online is due to the size of the community. An example I’m thinking of is something called Unus Annus. It was deliberately deleted by the creators, but it is still archived against the creator’s wills due to the audience for it being massive. What hope is there to even try to archive the stuff like niche webcomics that used Flash? It would be nice to know that comics, animations, things that people really cared and worked hard on, would be able to be seen later on in the future. As you say, it is a loss of culture.

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