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Community Spotlight: Fanlore
It's all in the name, fanlore is an extensive lore of derivative works made by fans, an encyclopedia of fan works! Fanfiction, Fanart, Filks you name it!
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Weekly Summary 05/25/2020
Imgur's forums shut down, Street Fighter April Fool's games are back and a new tool to identify lost YouTube videos! Shutdowns Imgur's Community forums shut down on May 22, following…
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Community Spotlight: Lost Media Wiki
Do you ever recall watching something on TV which was aired once and never again? Or perhaps playing an obscure video game, which no one else seems to know about? These are symptoms of Lost Media, media which is no longer available due to all known copies of it having been destroyed, damaged, rotting in storage or outright lost...
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Weekly Summary 05/18/2020
When one door closes, another door opens. Cardcast dead, Google Play Music dying; 8tracks back from the dead! Shutdowns For starters Google is preparing to shelve Google Play Music. In…
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Community Spotlight: The Eye
The Eye is a group of volunteers who claim to run the largest "open directory" on the internet, a claim which few would dare challenge seeing as their collection is at a whopping 140TBs of data. From old magazines to ROMs of long forgotten games, The Eye sees it all!
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Weekly Summary 05/11/2020
Before we start, in case you haven't noticed, we've been going through some design changes. Most notably you should now be able to see a link to our Discord Server…
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Community Spotlight: r/DataHoarder
r/DataHoarder is perhaps one of the largest data hoarding groups out there. Once a humble subreddit, it now hosts over 200 thousand members!
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Weekly Summary 05/04/2020
Wunderlist shutting down, Flashpoint 8.0, a lost Sega Genesis game and more! ShutdownsAs a reminder, Wunderlist the planning app will be shutting down in a matter days. The app has…
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A New Postbox
Art by Julie Ford Oliver: https://juliefordoliver.blogspot.com/2011/08/artistic-mailboxes.html Bit of a quick announcement. Due to being locked out of our original submissions address we've decided to start a new one: datahordesubmissions AT…
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Justice For All
So guess what what just declared public domain? Everybody's favorite source of reading material: legal documents! So some context: a guy by the name of Carl Malamud runs a site…