Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social

1994: internet is ephemeral 2004: internet is forever 2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots 2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work

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Jenna Routenberg @jennaroutenberg.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 18:08 UTC

Or in other words, 2024: internet is ephemeral

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Zachary J. Smith @vocabulist.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 18:09 UTC

Almost every one of my favorite websites from the Aughts has vanished (except for caches in the Wayback Machine). Like 90%.

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Rethgaal @rethgaal.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 17:09 UTC

And my partner thinks I'm crazy for having a problematically large dvd/BluRay collection. Who's the crazy one now?!

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Comrade Pancakes ☭🥞🔻 @callmepancakes.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 18:04 UTC

2024: the old ways are new again. Host a website for your writing and photos. Buy music CDs bc vinyl is ridiculously expensive again, rip to lossless.

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Kamose Mills @kamosemills.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 17:54 UTC

My life span.

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Michael Maris @edrobot.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 25, 2024 at 01:51 UTC

🏴‍☠️

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Keith Schleiffer @kschleiffer.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 25, 2024 at 14:57 UTC

And vinyl LPs are being collected again.

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Anymouse He/Him @anymouse68.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 17:47 UTC

I remember when, it the most ironic way to introduce this trend, Amazon deleted ALL copies of a certain edition of "1984" from every Kindle with no compensation.

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Saskboy from Saskatchewan @saskboy.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

I feel this in my Internet bones. 1994 CDs are forever and massive. 2024 CDs do not have a drive to be read on this computer, in part because they store almost nothing.

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Kategod 🐉🧿🦑𓅛🪬 @kategodart.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 19:52 UTC

surprised pikachu face

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MineBoom (🔞, sorry) @mineboom.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 25, 2024 at 06:24 UTC

Long live piracy and personal websites.

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Atomikrin @atomikrin.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 17:15 UTC

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 16:24 UTC

That stupid shit you said 15 years ago on a Facebook you've long since lost access to: that will find a way to outlive the sun.

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Ainsley (any prns) -> Stratosfur @fishainsley.art [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 16:11 UTC

That’s why I keep my art on my own website. I’m the only person I can trust not to delete it or ban me. Then again, for now I’m still reliant on Linode…

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Michael Donow @michaeldonow.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 16:26 UTC

And to think private equity firms rose in power due to criminally corrupt politicians who changed tax law & watered down regulation so they could now kill off the power of the press just in time for this pivotal election? Does this not seem planned to you?

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Half Cocked @halfcockedlaw.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 23:16 UTC

1994: floppy parties 2004: dcc+ 2014: bit torrent 2024: bit torrent

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Ethan Gandia @ejman0131.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 20:36 UTC

Also the classic social media platforms are a hellhole nowadays. Can’t go 5 minutes on Twitter without seeing an argument 🤦🏽‍♂️

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Fauxmorian @fauxmorian.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:52 UTC

2025: Internet is ephemeral

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Cassie E. Brown @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 16:05 UTC

Yeah... Spot the chick still buying used DVDs here because my trust is low.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 16:01 UTC

Literally accurate

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Lyds @lydiacroftart.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 16:54 UTC

I bought dvds today for the first time in like 6 years

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Nate is waking up @nf1nk.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:35 UTC

But somehow that really horrible picture of me with a bad mustache is the first thing that always comes up. And a resume from 20 years ago when I was trying to get a job as a programmer, that comes up too.

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NutshellGulag @nutshellgulag.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 18:24 UTC

"the internet is forever" only applies to things you don't want to last.

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George Bee @geebeethomson.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:36 UTC

I get a little sad when I think of the forums I used in 2003 that are probably lost forever.

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Megatron @megatron20xx.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 18:35 UTC

Welcome to today.

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Sava @unicorntickles.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 16:19 UTC

It’s almost like there should be some kind of body of regulations or something but Americans are taught to hate regulations straight out of the womb.

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Tangled Lump @tangledlump.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

Maybe save your work? Pay for backups. Print it off?

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Veronica @vmcombs.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 25, 2024 at 01:04 UTC

The last 30 years in publishing: A play in four acts.

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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:53 UTC

Good reminder to save copies of your writing/digital art one a separate drive if you can.

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Dewi Ioan @dewiioan.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 18:00 UTC

I own it, downloaded it , or have it it on physical media ... ... I often see people asking where they can stream it ...

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Chillbo Hangins @woskethoughts.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 25, 2024 at 02:31 UTC

Sooo … the “pirates” were right all along?

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Stephen Rodda @kernowbear.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:53 UTC

In 2034 I'll probably be gaga!

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John Beverley @johnbeverley.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 18:21 UTC

One thing UK does properly (at least for a little while longer) is that acts of parliament are written on vellum (treated calfskin) which lasts for centuries.

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Randee Dawn @randee.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:46 UTC

I’ve been writing about this in the Hollywood space for some time. All of these directors who make digital only movies or digital first movies are going to be very sad in about 20 years when the machines can’t play their masters.

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Chris Messer @chrismesser.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 16:32 UTC

Imagine the cow Orwell would have, he flipped his top when news papers were coming out too quickly.

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@bricor.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 21:20 UTC

Bawbag

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Jenna Talia @jennatalia.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 16:27 UTC

I'm still baffled by the fact that people believe archeologists will be able to find memes 1,000 years later. Even if we dedicated everything to archives, things would still slip through the cracks. If the internet broke then we would be in a dark age. NOBODY would know internet culture in 3024.

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Rose, The Sword Vixen @threetails.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 17, 2024 at 09:35 UTC

That's why I firmly stand by having as much of my work in physical print as possible! Also why I shoot film a lot more lately.

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F. Anne Fischer, Author🇵🇸🇺🇦☮️ 💙❤️🖤 @refractedcreative.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 17:46 UTC

I've always kept digital copies of my media on my own computer/external harddrive. I don't have the space for physical copies at the moment.

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Dawa Zangpo @dawazangpo.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 19:28 UTC

archive.org

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Cris (without an H) @ambignostic.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:39 UTC

Maybe eat my shorts

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Nurseferatu @nurseferatu.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:45 UTC

This is interesting to me since artists and content creators of my acquaintance have been discussing since 2007 how ephemeral digital content can be, especially if stored on servers not controlled by the artist. One of my maxims is not to make your income dependent on someone else’s platform.

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Tom (kid codger) O'Neill @doctecazoid.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:44 UTC

2037: The last PC capable of running Windows XP dies ignominiously.

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Max 🏳️‍⚧️ @panduino.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 18:14 UTC

Not a solution but a friendly reminder to back up any and all media you ever purchase or own. Doesn’t have to be physically, just get a large hard drive for archival purposes and call it a day. With the amount of things that have been removed from streaming services it’s a life saver

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Al Petterson @eyelessgame.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 17:45 UTC

DVDs and physical books are still my favorite presents.

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Bruce Cullen @bacullenyyc.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 28, 2024 at 07:42 UTC

Enshittification - Cory Doctorow

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LovePump.bsky.social @lovepump.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 22:53 UTC

Everything will eventually be in the public domain.

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Matt Hiebert @thogstacker.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 25, 2024 at 02:39 UTC

I still have all my damned VHS tapes. I went through a phase a few years ago where I bought up all the used VHS players i found in thrift stores. I’m set. Be kind. Rewind. Forever.

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david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 16:58 UTC

2028: we don’t own anything, even our minds are leased

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𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝚂𝚒𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚕 @dsilverbell.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 18:46 UTC

2030: the sun ate the internet and civilization collapsed

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Apetivist ☭ 🇵🇸 🔻 🏳️‍🌈 👨‍🦼😷 @apetivist.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 25, 2024 at 00:51 UTC

Also say goodbye to your games.

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JanHamCam @janhamcam.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 17:36 UTC

lol, my in-class, school office, and home office physical media libraries are no longer dismissed by my colleagues and students as the goofball pursuits of an aging boomer. tbh, i hate being proven right. now back to enjoying my new box DVD set of The Invaders, the full series!

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 16:11 UTC

Subscribe to new my newsletter :P (which I control but that's yes hosted by a company with bad policies and they'll probably delete it all soon anyway sigh) countercraft.substack.com

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Schroedingercat @schroedingercat.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 16:28 UTC

Historians are going to have a hard time understanding the last decade

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flitzpiepe0815 (ag stimmung) @flitzpiepe.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 18:14 UTC

also online streaming is linear cable tv now but you also have to pay for cable in order to watch it.

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@patter.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:36 UTC

2025: The content of your websites is randomly generated text

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@fpaez99.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 25, 2024 at 05:53 UTC

The 2020’s suck so far. But at least things can only go up from here… right?

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zawa113CJ @zawa113cj.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:46 UTC

Official internet is ephemeral. Pirate internet is forever (sort of, hope someone else still cares about your obscure 80s anime enough to help others see it!)

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June @theworldsgreatestwriter.com [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 16:25 UTC

2034: physical media is now released only under a subscription plan and if you fail to pay, it starts shocking you when you touch it

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André @andrecomics.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:43 UTC

Books feel like the most indestructible medium.

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HELL WIZARD @pyramidmaster.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 08, 2024 at 17:34 UTC

sadly all of my beautiful penis jokes will too one day turn to dust

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Jack Curtis Dubowsky @jackcurtisdubowsky.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 26, 2024 at 21:25 UTC

2025: we cannot access your favorite book but here’s an AI that was trained on it

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Oakley (tm) @soapyseltzer.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 26, 2024 at 06:46 UTC

*dies*

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Carlos Solís @csolisr.azkware.net [ View ] Feb 25, 2024 at 06:44 UTC

2034: overzealous DRM means that your brain is actively forgetting the things you love so you end up repurchasing them ten years down the line

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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:49 UTC

I still own the first year's issues of Wired, which I bought when the magazine was launched in 1993. They're full of libertarian handwringing about the prospect of corporations entering the internet world. It didn't take long for the founders to lose the magazine to…a private equity firm.

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mlex @mlex.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 16:02 UTC

yep. this is why I posted stuff on digital repositories with DOI handles beginning in 2010. even so, that stuff could vanish, too. my take-away from all this is: it's all in your head. keep your mind clear. no need to contain the storehouse of consciousness inside of one skull.

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Ornery on Main @dishonorstudent.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:54 UTC

I have been saying it for years: Streaming and digital downloads are all well and good, but buy the dvd/bluray so you have a physical copy, or at the very least have a 100% offline backup copy of your purchased digital content in case the corp you bought it from decided you were renting instead.

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 19:00 UTC

For real!

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David Herbert @dmh3000.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 21:29 UTC

Also, that forum you spent your teens on where you made so many friends is gone forever and since you forgot to get their facebook details, you'll never see them again.

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Mavrody, Ника @mavrody.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 19:25 UTC

Everything saved on the Internet Archive, what’s up with the melodrama.

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ZeroChill @deathchurch9000.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 16:28 UTC

Hahahahaha

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@heywooood.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 16:26 UTC

My favorite lie about the internet was how businesses would be able to ‘go paperless’ when in fact the outcome has been the decimation of forests - terrific. Hype is another word for bullshit.

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MKG @mkg.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:37 UTC

Beginning of time > now: People will screw up everything that has potential for universal good.

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Lux in the Bronx 🎗️ @rlux.nyc [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:36 UTC

Yep 😞

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Alex @alexkendziorski.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 22:52 UTC

2024 onward only AI can use the internet. Meatbags get back to work.

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Ray @krehnsolutions.com [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:53 UTC

And this is why so many people are sailing the seas 🏴‍☠️

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Joseph Malik, Author @jmalikauthor.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 19:08 UTC

I am tempted at this point to only release my books as physical media going forward.

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🦬 AudeS, Wrath Month is upon thee @audes.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 15:42 UTC

What do we learn from this? Two things. Preservation is difficult regardless of medium & Capitalism as an economic system that after already leading us into another mass extinction event will also destroy everything else we derive happiness from for profits.

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Abyrae @abyrae.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 18:56 UTC

And I will continue buying physical mefia while I still have the option to, because fuck this.

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