web dizzy.

[stephywang]

It's funny how we will probably fondly look back at certain websites in 20 years like a good book, except books don't keep transforming themselves, or get wiped out by laziness or forgetting to pay for your domain name. It's as though they're books in the process or pure potential

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[jadelin]

I had this discussion with Mike about a month ago, actually. Sometimes I'd stumble upon fan-made stories, art, flash videos, or creative works that I had great fondness for. However…as quickly as they'd emerge, they'd soon disappear-so over time, I had started saving my favorite art, stories, and snippets of work in a small cache.

Mike himself uses some scripting commands to save entire websites that he may have enjoyed. However, there were often times I'd forgotten to save things I might have enjoyed, and by the time I'd remember-it was too late, and the site was dead. Fortunately, there's always http://www.archive.org/ though, it only saves the sites that allow robots to publicly gather pages from meta data.

[ninextimes]

That is why I save all my favorite stuff. Either it gets deleted, or moves, or I forget where I found it. But if I save it, then I can have it forever! That's why it was totally worth it to me to shell out for a 160GB hard drive at the begining of the semester. Now I can save EVERYTHING!

[kunio_kun]

http://www.solidsharkey.com/wisefwomyogwave.html

It's still missing everything from his verge-rpg site in 1997-1998, like his MS Paint comic, but most of his older articles and newsposts are there. :)