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Keep Circulating the Tapes
If you recognize the title, chances are you know what I'm about to talk about. For those of you who don't, the phrase appeared in the credits of the first…
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Weekly Summary 02/10/2020
The main event this week has been recovery efforts following the fire that broke out near the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) back in January. MOCA is deeply saddened…
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MSN Messenger is Back!
Think about the first instant messaging service that you used. Chances are it has been discontinued many years ago and got replaced by today's giants such as Skype or Discord.…
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Weekly Summary 02/03/2020
A warm welcome to a cold February! This week we have some updates on Yahoo Groups, and a couple of shutdowns. We recently passed the deadline for the shutdown of…
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Why is this important? Or, the story of Victor Trembly
So let's start off with a story. It's 2013 and I've just found out Homestar Runner made a reappearance. Strong Bad gets his name wrong and calls him Homestuck. I…
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Saving Private Groups: This Time the Mission is the Fan
In a little more than 24 hours Yahoo Groups will be biting the dust, if you were once a member of a community or perhaps own and/or know an owner…
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Weekly Summary 01/27/2020
2020 is both the start of a new decade, but it also concluded the previous one. Perhaps now is a good time as ever to be reflecting on how things…
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Tutorial: Back Up a Web Page or Web Site
Let's say there is a website you visit on a regular basis that contains useful information that you might not want to lose access to. This could happen for a…
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Weekly Summary 01/20/2020
This will be our very first weekly summary, part of a series where we talk about recent developments in the archiving community. Since this is our first one, we're going…
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Post-it Notes: Saving YouTube’s Video Annotations
YouTube took a decision In late 2018 to discontinue its video annotations feature. These were vital in the era before closed captions were available, not to mention unique in the…