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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@piefed.social 110 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

IT BELONGS ~~IN A MUSEUM~~ ON MY HARDRIVE

[–] plateee@piefed.social 38 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I was thinking Internet Archive, but either works.

[–] TheseusNow@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 hours ago

Came here to say this. Me and my wife were playing games from DOS and win95/98 days thanks to the internet archive recently. It really felt like digging up memories.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

SO DO YOU!

Throw him over the side.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@piefed.social 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 14 hours ago

"(smirk) Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory."

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 14 hours ago

In a way a lot of us end up becoming amateur librarians. When the big megaservers get hit with something nasty, or they decide to purge it all for AI datasets or something. (Idk it's a stupid timeline anything is possible lol)

I like to think our fellow amateur archivists who started collecting such things for personal reasons will be a force for preserving meaningful artifacts of human experience.