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Magic the Gathering players lament the loss of 30-year history

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Re: Magic the Gathering players lament the loss of 30-year history

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Free rsync.net space to anyone undertaking this or any efforts like this. Just email.

I have no connection with the MTG article. But I do keep in mind the “any effort like this” bit. Your account name is memorable enough.

... with extra special attention given to any efforts to preserve usenet/fidonet ...

Re: Magic the Gathering players lament the loss of 30-year history

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Back in 1998, when I was a 12y old, I started a website about Magic. I was an italian kid that didn't know any english, with a pentium 2 and a cracked version of front page. fast forward 3 years from there, I was running the the biggest italian magic community with ~15k concurrent active users daily, with one of the biggest deployed use cased of a asp/access database (because hosts were charing a lot more for php+sql…

mtgox?

thebibleofmagic

Re: Magic the Gathering players lament the loss of 30-year history

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I feel we as a society are not yet adapted well to culture being in ephemeral electronic form, and we will keep losing huge chunks of cultural history because some corp doesn't care about stuff not reflected in the yearly plan. There are laudable preservation efforts like archive.org but they can't get everywhere and are hindered by copyright regime. We need to develop a model which would allow us to preserve our collective cultural memory.

Re: Magic the Gathering players lament the loss of 30-year history

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post #76

Back in 1998, when I was a 12y old, I started a website about Magic. I was an italian kid that didn't know any english, with a pentium 2 and a cracked version of front page. fast forward 3 years from there, I was running the the biggest italian magic community with ~15k concurrent active users daily, with one of the biggest deployed use cased of a asp/access database (because hosts were charing a lot more for php+sql…

Loved this story. Is this a peek of your site on the Wayback Machine? The late 90s and early 2000s were such a magical time for the early web!

https://web.archive.org/web/20020930072241/http://www.thebib...

Re: Magic the Gathering players lament the loss of 30-year history

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Do they really pay influencers? I’m skeptical. There seem to be a limitless supply of megafans who will defend the bad decisions of corporations because they’ve invested their personality in it, not because they’re getting paid.

RedLetterMedia's fake "Nerd Crew" podcast [1] satirized the fanboy Youtube/podcast community perfectly. You don't need to pay influencers heavily. You just need to make them feel important. You get mid-tier execs to phone them to give them "inside" information. You give them early access to content so they can have opinions before anyone. You invite them to white-glove events (maybe even fly them there for free) and…

Nerd Crew is brilliant.
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