Loss of nearly a full decade of information from early days of Chinese internet
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Loss of nearly a full decade of information from early days of Chinese internet
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#5Written by He Jiayan (何加盐), an internet influencer active since 2018, the essay concluded, based on a wide range of searches of various entertainment and cultural figures from the late 1990s through the mid-2000s, that nearly 100 percent of content from major internet portals and private websites from the first decade of China’s internet has now been obliterated.
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#7> Within the selected date range of “May 22, 1998 to May 22, 2005” on Baidu, there is just one positive result for “Jack Ma” (dated May 22, 2024). [..] Click on the result and you’ll find it is an article posted in 2021
US Google: About 2,580,000 results
A pretty remarkable scrubbing of history.
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We just need to ask the NSA for their copy via a FOIA request.
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That's not quite true. There's overall a big, distributed and decentraliszed effort to archive our electronic past, it's not just archive.org. For example, it's fun to look at old newsgroup discussions from 1994, and it's something I can find at Google's archive. And more importantly, it's available to everybody. And it's not the only place to find historical internet stuff.
I do agree though that archive.org is too valuable a resource to ever lose.
Google also isn't perfect. There was a post the other week about how there were no searchable images on Google older than ... I don't remember, 2005?
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There has been plenty of content that has been wiped out for a lot of reasons :
geocities went through a lot of changes pre-post yahoo buyout, all the university student pages, blogs/self host such has multimania/free/wanadoo (at least in France), forums such has ezboard.
So much content disappeared and will disappear.