Comment on MMO scholar puts a $500 bounty on old versions of RuneScape as part of a community archive project: "You might have ALL of the game's lost versions!"

neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• greenskye@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is why I think it’s funny people still believe ‘the Internet is forever’. Data disappears all the time. If you really start paying attention it’s scary how ephemeral the Internet truly is and how much is lost all the time.

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  • Grunt4019@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think it’s a good way for most people to think of things when posting to social media, etc. as you might not know how long what you put out there might be out there, and you might not be able to take down or modify it without someone capturing it before you have done so.

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• amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  time for all of us to volunteer at your garbage dump like that dude who offered to buy his local garbage dump because his Bitcoin hard drive might be there

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• tonytins@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yikes. That is a shame.

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