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>This agnostic, wide-ranging crawl likely represented both the original source of the image Why do they say it's likely that the person who first posted the image on the message board got the image from the Internet Archive?
Now someone should make a game where you design indoor rc car tracks in the backrooms.
And, as expected, there is a backroom level: http://revoltzone.net/m/tracks/70429/Backrooms (There are probably others, this was the first result after a search)
>This agnostic, wide-ranging crawl likely represented both the original source of the image Why do they say it's likely that the person who first posted the image on the message board got the image from the Internet Archive?
I thought the same thing. If you look at the crawled page, it's only one of like 20 images that survived. So either the crawl got lucky and saved the only relevant image, or there is survivor bias. Then again, the actual crawl might be triggered precisely because the image was linked.
Something I noticed was that all other jpgs in this site have a lager number in the filename, for example: www.hobbytownoshkosh.com/Dsc00348.jpg
So maybe the crawler that saved this webpage had a limit on how many suburls it would capture and it sorted by name and then stopped at around Dsc00161.jpg, which is the name of the image in question. Though there is a Dsc00164 that is lost so it seems kind of unlikely...
I remember seeing this before. Curious how / who found the original in the Wayback archives? Didn’t see that mentioned in the article.
I love and appreciate the Wayback Machine, but using it is such a bittersweet experience. So many of the crawls are incomplete. I’ve managed to find pages that hosted content of interest to me, only to find that particular resource unavailable. And if it’s not on the Wayback Machine, it’s just gone forever. Feels like tracking an old friend down to their tombstone.
I suppose that's the internet itself...
I love and appreciate the Wayback Machine, but using it is such a bittersweet experience. So many of the crawls are incomplete. I’ve managed to find pages that hosted content of interest to me, only to find that particular resource unavailable. And if it’s not on the Wayback Machine, it’s just gone forever. Feels like tracking an old friend down to their tombstone.
I quite like the fragility of it, it makes it more apparent that everything is transient. In a way I wish the IA had a half life on content, that it would decay over time, pages and images would be randomly deleted. Little by little it would rot and become nothing, a reflection of humanity. I suppose that's the internet itself...
I agree. Permanence should be tied to individual wills, not collective inertia. If you want a permanent thing, work for it, host it and publicize it
I love and appreciate the Wayback Machine, but using it is such a bittersweet experience. So many of the crawls are incomplete. I’ve managed to find pages that hosted content of interest to me, only to find that particular resource unavailable. And if it’s not on the Wayback Machine, it’s just gone forever. Feels like tracking an old friend down to their tombstone.
I did this yesterday. He went in 2016.
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I quite like the fragility of it, it makes it more apparent that everything is transient. In a way I wish the IA had a half life on content, that it would decay over time, pages and images would be randomly deleted. Little by little it would rot and become nothing, a reflection of humanity. I suppose that's the internet itself...
> everything is transient I agree. Permanence should be tied to individual wills, not collective inertia. If you want a permanent thing, work for it, host it and publicize it
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I quite like the fragility of it, it makes it more apparent that everything is transient. In a way I wish the IA had a half life on content, that it would decay over time, pages and images would be randomly deleted. Little by little it would rot and become nothing, a reflection of humanity. I suppose that's the internet itself...
> everything is transient I agree. Permanence should be tied to individual wills, not collective inertia. If you want a permanent thing, work for it, host it and publicize it
So much of the past is completely opaque to us because of decay, intentional destruction and lack of interest. I think there's a moral imperative to preserve.