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X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014
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To zoom out even more: It's just one more incident showing how fragile investor-sustained digital information systems are.
Every website that came before the current crop of mega-scale privacy-invading behemoths also failed, and took down all their user data and history with them. Why would anyone expect Twitter to be any different?
My Geocities page :(
a piece of history i wish i could pull up and remind myself how far i've come in web design
Try archive.org
But like I don't know the url. My geocities are better left in my memories
I had a Tripod page dedicated to a spider in my office I named Mr. Jibbles and took low-res pictures of him with my first digital camera (came free with a copy of Windows XP). I'd kind of like to see Mr. Jibbles again, but I'm sure he's not as jibbly as I remember.
Livejournal would like a word with you.
Current mood: Amused 😄
Current music: The sound of my own thoughts...
They're from before my time. But they also hosted some art that I found after the fact that I really love, so I'm glad (and a bit surprised) to see the data is still up.
That said, they're owned and operated by Russians now. So....