#and with fanworks it is a bit more trivial but so much of important historical documents only exist on social media | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

notthatalex · 10 months ago

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People are laughing at me now, doing long-time archival of fanwork I care about, but in the future bc of digital dark age, only my blorbos will have survived

*no one is laughing at me

**I have librarian/archivist disease

***I am not the only one doing this and I am not even doing it particularly well

#but no really especially stuff on social media sites dies quickly #and with fanworks it is a bit more trivial but so much of important historical documents only exist on social media #and that stuff will be gone #save what you care about #your hard drive has only a life expectancy of 10 years #for really important stuff you should burn it onto a cd which has a life expectancy of 50 #but how you take care of them is very important and that mostly determines how long they will last #the digital media you have will disappear in you lifetime if you dont have an eye on this

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