Lucas Jacobson yes individual items like on forums or websites like Myspace have disappeared forever because there was no backup. This is actually one of the campaigns I’m fight against a lot – the **indiscriminate deletion** of sites with lots of user contributed content When the AOL message forums from 1989 to 2007 were wiped out overnight by the new company that bought it, I was actually shocked because nobody saw it coming and there was very little backup of any kind from anybody A whole gigantic chunk of Internet history is simply wiped out from a single set of servers Same thing with Myspace a few years later I contribute money to the internet archive to support their efforts at archiving the internet It’s a big issue to me But this is not what Ted is talking about

Lucas Jacobson yes individual items like on forums or websites like Myspace have disappeared forever because there was no backup.

This is actually one of the campaigns I’m fight against a lot – the **indiscriminate deletion** of sites with lots of user contributed content

When the AOL message forums from 1989 to 2007 were wiped out overnight by the new company that bought it, I was actually shocked because nobody saw it coming and there was very little backup of any kind from anybody

A whole gigantic chunk of Internet history is simply wiped out from a single set of servers

Same thing with Myspace a few years later

I contribute money to the internet archive to support their efforts at archiving the internet

It’s a big issue to me

But this is not what Ted is talking about