This year, the history of the original Voat.co was struck with three disasters.
We lost pic8.co in April, searchvoat.co in August, and the Catbox archives on the Wayback Machine in September - all in this year. Around the time Voat shut down, the Wayback Machine had saved some Catbox files linked from Voat, which became the only backup given that Catbox (better named Furrybox) has purged most files from the Voat days over time.
This is why I encourage everybody: if you see a funny or based meme, save it locally. You might turn out to be the only person keeping it alive in a few years' time.
