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Archiving the Internet
So when it comes to holding onto data I've had some very bad luck. My phone died due to water damage and I didn't have anything backed up on the cloud, and while I sent it in for data recovery they couldn't pull anything off of it. My only real option now is to pay $700 minimum to a company out in California that specializes in hardcore data recovery. :S
Of course, the ones affecting more than just me are the ones that haven't (for the most part) happened yet. Tumblr will remove all adult content on 12/17, and Geocities Japan will shut down completely at the end of March 2019.
I'm not gonna go into Tumblr too much as its been all everyone's been talking about, but I have strated making second mirrors for stuff like the Chibisan Date manga in the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
chibisan_date community here (using imgur).
The shutdown of Geocities Japan, however, is much more serious and (imo) tragic, as there are sites on there dating back to the early 00's that have been forgotten and will be lost with no one to archive them. When the OG Geocities shut down it was sudden, so I'm at least glad that they gave us a few months of warning (it was originally announced on October 1st). Why does this affect me personally? The website of Hidekaz Himaruya, the creator of Hetalia, is on geocities and has been around in some form since 2003. In fact, this site was a lot of people's first concern as キタユメ。 ("Kitayume.", the name of the website) was trending on twitter when the announcement happened.
Years ago, my friends![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jammerlea andsammich created a website called Hetarchive, which mirrored all the translated comics from the Hetalia livejournal in a way that was easier to read (and didn't run the risk of the image host deleting the translations). Because we had that infrastructure already set up (and having just launched Kitayumeverse for Himaruya's other non-Hetalia works in September), we've been using it to mirror and host as much of the original, untranslated material as possible while running everything through archival sites. Himaruya himself has said he will mirror stuff on his new wordpress blog as well, but he's been... slow.
We've already accomplished mirroring a lot with only a few months left to go. While archiving is tedious and (very) time consuming, I feel like it's something I'm good at and, to some small degree, enjoy. It's also nice that there's something tangible I can do about it. I just wish, you know, the original content wasn't being taken down. Every time this happens it feels like history is being lost, and we just scramble to collect what we can before the rest disappears. ;_;
Of course, the ones affecting more than just me are the ones that haven't (for the most part) happened yet. Tumblr will remove all adult content on 12/17, and Geocities Japan will shut down completely at the end of March 2019.
I'm not gonna go into Tumblr too much as its been all everyone's been talking about, but I have strated making second mirrors for stuff like the Chibisan Date manga in the
chibisan_date community here (using imgur).The shutdown of Geocities Japan, however, is much more serious and (imo) tragic, as there are sites on there dating back to the early 00's that have been forgotten and will be lost with no one to archive them. When the OG Geocities shut down it was sudden, so I'm at least glad that they gave us a few months of warning (it was originally announced on October 1st). Why does this affect me personally? The website of Hidekaz Himaruya, the creator of Hetalia, is on geocities and has been around in some form since 2003. In fact, this site was a lot of people's first concern as キタユメ。 ("Kitayume.", the name of the website) was trending on twitter when the announcement happened.
Years ago, my friends
jammerlea andsammich created a website called Hetarchive, which mirrored all the translated comics from the Hetalia livejournal in a way that was easier to read (and didn't run the risk of the image host deleting the translations). Because we had that infrastructure already set up (and having just launched Kitayumeverse for Himaruya's other non-Hetalia works in September), we've been using it to mirror and host as much of the original, untranslated material as possible while running everything through archival sites. Himaruya himself has said he will mirror stuff on his new wordpress blog as well, but he's been... slow.We've already accomplished mirroring a lot with only a few months left to go. While archiving is tedious and (very) time consuming, I feel like it's something I'm good at and, to some small degree, enjoy. It's also nice that there's something tangible I can do about it. I just wish, you know, the original content wasn't being taken down. Every time this happens it feels like history is being lost, and we just scramble to collect what we can before the rest disappears. ;_;