CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@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.

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.

There's still time to join us tomorrow night for the VANISHING CULTURE book launch! Celebrate, meet the contributors, and hear why corporate interests, shifting distribution models, and cyber attacks are threatening public access to our shared cultural history. Thu, April 23 5:30 pm: Doors open & entertainment 300 Funston Ave, SF️ https://blog.archive.org/event/vanishing-culture-book-launch/@internetarchive #Bookstodon #VanishingCulture

@kirkman Atari cartridges (VCS/2600, 400/800, 5200) all had an interesting mechanism to keep fingers and dirt out of the board edge connectors. It was an improvement over the Fairchild Channel F cartridge (1976, a year earlier), which had just a hinged cover with a spring.