{"id":5186,"date":"2015-11-05T19:50:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T19:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5186"},"modified":"2015-10-26T12:54:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T12:54:34","slug":"linked-raiders-of-the-lost-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/11\/05\/linked-raiders-of-the-lost-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: “Raiders of the Lost Web”"},"content":{"rendered":"

via The Atlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It was worth the effort. Vaughan\u2019s story about the 1961 crash, a 34-part series that spanned more than a month in early 2007, was a sensation. \u201cI don\u2019t want to overstate it,\u201d Vaughan said. \u201cBut I feel like it was transformative for the people who went through that tragedy. I\u2019ve had people tell me, for instance, that the series cut loose all this emotion that they had bottled up inside, most of them for their entire lives.\u201d Readers wrote in to say they\u2019d sit at their computers at midnight, refreshing their browsers until the next installment appeared. \u201cIt had tremendous impact,\u201d Temple said, recalling a community meeting that drew 800 people in response to the series. \u201cIt was a big deal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe did a couple of those public forums,\u201d Vaughan said. \u201cIn one of them, somebody asked John Temple how long the series was going to be on the Internet, and John said, \u2018Forever.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2008, Vaughan was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for the series. The next year, the Rocky folded. And in the months that followed, the website slowly broke apart. One day, without warning, \u201cThe Crossing\u201d evaporated from the Internet.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This article was the best thing I\u2019ve read all week. A further validation of my personal pursuits in protecting my own data in an age where a 5 second Vine video is posted, liked and in a matter of minutes, down so far on a user\u2019s timeline that it\u2019s basically forgotten and that user is on to the next video. When Vine as a service goes away, the content creator gets a new iPhone and it wasn\u2019t backed up anywhere owned by the creator, it ceases to exist. That\u2019s the age we live in.<\/p>\n

New stories may stick around longer, text is pretty safe with Archive.org in existence but rich-media is dead once the server hosting it goes down. I can\u2019t stress this enough to my readers. If you have data you spent time creating, curating and appreciating, please back it up to a physical location you own in two different places so you will have that thing 5-50 years from now. You\u2019ll need to slowly move digital media around as newer methods for connecting storage to a computer are invented but it\u2019s imperative you keep your own backups.<\/p>\n

Save the things you love. Don\u2019t rely on a server farm or cloud to be there forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via The Atlantic: It was worth the effort. Vaughan\u2019s story about the 1961 crash, a 34-part series that…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:09:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"c76b6373-554a-45a9-bbe9-15edaabaa329","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:09:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ax2tjc1VKRam76RXtqrqjKQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1lE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4944,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/09\/21\/linked-a-star-wars-video-series-comparing-all-of-the-changes-ever-made-to-the-original-trilogy-films-throughout-the-years\/","url_meta":{"origin":5186,"position":0},"title":"Linked: “A \u2018Star Wars\u2019 Video Series Comparing All of the Changes Ever Made to the Original Trilogy Films Throughout the Years”","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via LaughingSquid: Marcelo Zuniga has created a wonderful Star Wars video series that compares all of the changes ever made to each of the original trilogy films throughout the years. 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