CIRCLE WITH A DOT

What happens when access to culture depends on platforms that can simply remove it? ️In VANISHING CULTURE, Luca Messarra, Chris Freeland, and Katie Livingston explore how licensing, corporate control, and shutdowns shape what survives in the digital record and what disappears.️ Listen on the Future Knowledge #podcasthttps://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture Read #it free from the #InternetArchive ️ Download: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new #Bookstodon

@internetarchive That 75% is encouraging, but the remaining 25% is a real reminder that preservation doesn’t just happen on its own. Without ongoing effort, important pieces of history can easily disappear.

Link rot continues to be a real scourge on the 'net; in fact, it's worse now than it was when people starting warning about it 30 years ago.That's why I'm proud that many pages on my main site have not changed in 20 years.More seriously, donate to the Internet Archive, so they can preserve more of the 'net for posterity.#wink #LinkRot #web #ArchiveOrg #InternetArchive

The real risk is not the content going dark, it is the growing gap between what is preserved and what is discoverable. Indexing has always lagged archiving, and AI summarization is now consuming the archive without necessarily surfacing the original source.

This makes me smile. Very fond memories of finding mods and cool demos on these as a youngin. The Internet Archive has preserved 758 old PC Gamer demo discs you can download and play | PC Gamerhttps://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-internet-archive-has-preserved-758-old-pc-gamer-demo-discs-you-can-download-and-play/#pcgaming #pcgamer #demodisc #internetarchive