[Chart] We had 1907 unique visitors this December.
I was trying to download a mod for a game and the link sent me to an ad shortener that doesn't work anymore, making it a dead end, but I did end up finding the mod somewhere else. This, coupled with zippyshare's death some months ago made me think about how much stuff has been lost carelessly over the years due to situations like these. I'm not referring to big important stuff like bigger games or culturally relevant movies or books as much as small things like simple mods or videos you enjoyed some years ago and now want to check out once more and it turns out they'll never be seen again because the small number of people who knew about it took it for granted and never backed them up. Have you been a victim of situations like these? Last time I can think of was when I was looking for some old YTPs I used to watch and a lot of the videos were taken down by copyright shit and since the channel was dead and no one reuploaded his stuff, it's now missing.
Old forums are some of the places that lost most of their content I think. Usenet is mostly archived and even searchable, but when it comes to some of the 2000s forums you can only hope for snapshots from the wayback machine, but unfortunately they're often very incomplete. The most disappointed I've been about content getting wiped from the face of the earth is probably Ryan Armand's work. He is a webcomic artist that I discovered on 22chan. He had a website, but at some point he just disappeared; and while his most popular works (like Minus and "The Mildly Inconvenient Journey of Pelen Purul") are luckily fully archived, some of his other comics are almost completely lost. Socks for example is a comic about the ghost of a girl. The author wasn't very satisfied with it and wanted to redraw it, but from the few pages that remain it seemed interesting regardless. Here's what little is left: https://kiwisbybeat.net/socks/part-1
I am surfing youtube using this format
before:year search term goes here
So far its fucking great lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=98M2EddMO_w
My theme song...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=zQsvPEuUK4U&pp=ygUYYmVmb3JlOjIwMDYgcm96ZW4gbWFpZGVu
Oldest rozen maiden vid on youtube.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw&pp=ygURYmVmb3JlOjIwMDcgNGNoYW4%3D
JOIN US NOW AND SHARE THE SOFTWARE
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7yiMGnsjjhw&pp=ygURYmVmb3JlOjIwMDggNGNoYW4%3D
otacon must have been wild
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hlgc3_4WL0M&pp=ygUWYmVmb3JlOjIwMDkgZXJnbyBwcm94eQ%3D%3D
COME AND SAAAAAAAVVVVVEEEEE MMMMMMEEEEEEE
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7IDmF1O4cNM&pp=ygUUYmVmb3JlOjIwMDggYXp1bWFuZ2E%3D
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=WQWeHo2petM&pp=ygUUYmVmb3JlOjIwMDggYXp1bWFuZ2E%3D
EVERYTIME WE TOUCH I GET THIS FEELAN so many shit edits out there lol
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yuMeEDfzz5k&pp=ygUPYmVmb3JlOjIwMDYgY2F0
Eric is so fucking talented
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1GYCb7PTeHc&pp=ygUcYmVmb3JlOjIwMDggbWV0YWwgZ2VhciBzb2xpZA%3D%3D
Trailer for the new metal gear movie just leaked online
https://youtube.com/watch?v=30iQrFL7U4c&pp=ygUSYmVmb3JlOjIwMDYgb3RhY29u
The amount of people doing this is staggering.
And now, 2chan shit i found
https://youtube.com/watch?v=t9Ea42aRTQ0&pp=ygURYmVmb3JlOjIwMDggMmNoYW4%3D
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vbo5rODUg6c&pp=ygURYmVmb3JlOjIwMDggMmNoYW4%3D
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3zbiLjwYSPY&pp=ygURYmVmb3JlOjIwMDggMmNoYW4%3D
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jI0pzt4oTZk&pp=ygURYmVmb3JlOjIwMDggMmNoYW4%3D
There was a dead space ARG which was a prelude to dead space. I only played it once and it isnt availibe via internet archive so i doubt it'll be recovered or playable at all.
> Have you been a victim of situations like these?
yeah. sometimes i lose it.
there is so much that *should've* been saved thru any means possible, but just weren't. pic unrelated.