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The Vanishing Culture report arrives today at a critical moment: While Internet Archive recovers from a cyberattack, it’s a reminder of how fragile our access to knowledge can be. Preserving culture & history requires resilience—and collective action.

🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/10/30/va

The image shows the cover of the Internet Archive's Vanishing Culture report. On the left, the words "Vanishing Culture" are prominently displayed in bold, dark font against a neutral background. To the right, a set of cultural artifacts including a VHS tape, an open book, a film reel, a vinyl record, and a web link icon appear to disintegrate into pixels, symbolizing the disappearance of analog and digital media. Below these icons is a pixelated computer hand cursor pointing to the word "SAVE," emphasizing the need for preservation. The Internet Archive's logo is placed in the bottom-right corner.
30 October at 12:38 | Open on mastodon.archive.org
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🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦

@internetarchive At various points in Chinese history, rulers came in who wanted all knowledge of previous rulers expunged. They went often to very ... extreme, let's call it ... measures to accomplish this erasure.

What saved the knowledge from extinction?

Essentially piracy. Copies of forbidden texts made and circulated in the underground, stored for when, inevitably, said ruler dies and the texts could be resurfaced.

Let me get my pirate's hat. I've got work to do.

30 October at 12:54 | Open on mastodon.online
Brian Dear

@internetarchive

If only all members of your staff believed in the importance of preserving all culture and history, and not just preferred portions… but I digress.

30 October at 14:17 | Open on mastodon.social
Solomon Phoenix

@internetarchive
The Vanishing Culture report is a wake-up call to how easily our shared knowledge can slip away. Let’s protect what connects us to our roots.

#PreserveCulture #DigitalResilience #CollectiveMemory

30 October at 14:43 | Open on mastodon.social
AndyGER :verified_coffee:

@internetarchive A lot of video game history may be lost at one point in the future due to the massive greed of the companies ...

30 October at 14:47 | Open on troet.cafe
Ludovic Archivist Lagouardette

@internetarchive the only strong move to prevent data and history from being lost is copying it, copying it a lot, copying it everywhere. Internet Archive and Anna's Library are critical pieces of data preservation

30 October at 14:47 | Open on social.linux.pizza
Debby

@internetarchive

Thanks for the report on the disappearance of culture 🤔
And thank you for your inspiring work 💖 ✨

30 October at 15:13 | Open on esperanto.masto.host
bbbhltz

@internetarchive this keeps getting boosted by people in my feed and I'm glad cause that graphic is sweet and so is the article

30 October at 15:46 | Open on framapiaf.org
Logvon9
Ryan W. Featherston

@internetarchive Will we be able to log into our accounts soon?

30 October at 21:23 | Open on mastodon.social
Different Drummer

@internetarchive Interesting timing. I was thinking a few days ago that if the orange shitgibbon gets in, books, films, tv, audio, artefacts etc are just going to vansish from archive after archive all over America. Commonplace entertainments deemed unfitting for a fascist nation. All gone.

If I was these archives I'd back up physical copies OUTSIDE US territory in other countries.

31 October at 17:27 | Open on syzito.xyz
Verwechslungsgefährte 🍿

@internetarchive Hope, they are still donating to fragile undertakings.

1 November at 1:12 | Open on dresden.network
Christine McCloud

@internetarchive I know that @myheritage has been doing work in researching areas where certain languages are dying. #genealogy

1 November at 20:16 | Open on lor.sh
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