I began hoarding some obscure old news articles, Internet articles on various subjects, strange and funny old commercials, fanfics, anime AMVs, "animated" manga chapters etc. to prove they existed in the first place, or to use them as a reference. I also kinda felt they might get deleted, and most of them did. You should prioritize saving useful stuff that might and will cause copyright infringement and stuff the government of your country would most likely ban. For instance, I downloaded a shit ton of animes with French and German subs and dub, but the pirate sites I saved them from are no longer around.
Oh my gosh. The amount of those old MVs that are no longer on YouTube is crazy! I wish I was hoarding stuff back before a lot of my favorite wrestling highlight MVs got nuked :/
High resolution maps; archived videos and PDFs of books, television shows, and radio shows produced by right-wing groups so they can’t be memory-holed; news archives; research papers; naturally a lot of hard to find media and movies, but not as much as i’d have thought.
Sheer curiosity and the desire to have the information I've read at my hands is what led me to hoarding data. What made me double down was seeing information I had already accessed be removed entirely or made harder to access.
I collect data in the form of physical books on Alchemy, Folklore, Cryptozoology and the Occult.
That’s a unique and awesome sounding collection! Seeing information disappear from the web is so disheartening, I’ve been lucky enough to be able to dig up a lot of removed info using the wayback machine! The possibility of things I find interesting being removed from the web definitely helps drive my collections.
Youtube videos, the usual three. I have some roms. Recipes. Documentaries. I am glad you are tailoring your hoard to your own interests and not just what you think is popular.
Nice collections, recipes is a good one! There are a tons of documentaries that get removed from streaming services and youtube all the time so thats a fantastic subject to archive! …. It takes so much time to organize and label my collections (which I really enjoy doing) that I couldn’t imagine doing it for something that I wasn’t interested in lol!
My collection of physical media got so large that it was excessively cumbersome. Regularly I’d want to watch something I owned that was unavailable to stream and I’d be unable to find the disk. One day I said fuck it and decided to make a home server. Still working on it and it will prob take another two years to get caught up (I own a ton of movies) but I’m happy with it.
For me it was fanfiction. I have read fanfic since around 2006 but creating my personal archive is a recent interest (2024). There is one fandom that I really like the fanfic in that already has an archive built on fics form the early 2000s, this made me realize the importance of archiving, without people saving these great fics, they would have been lost. Now I try to add more recent fics to that archive as well as recovering lost fanfics.
Yay for archiving fanfic! I started saving fic too, back in 2023 - but I also have personal hand-saved copies of stuff from all over the 'net dating back to early 2000s, including stuff that I know is nowhere to be found anymore. I periodically go through and double-check what's deleted and back that up (beyond my usual backups) in a cloud storage folder. It's amazing how much has already been deleted in just two years… not to mention the archives of fanfic in the saved Yahoo Groups data which we don't even have sorted out enough to know what we have, lol.
Maps, survival manuals, fanfiction, books from Gutenberg. Lately I’ve been trying to curate collections to mimic a landscape or for lack of better term, vibe. Current projects is a bunch of Sassy magazines, Delia’s, and 90s commercials. All in all a good mix of anxious planning and escapism.
Started by saving the ebooks, fonts, movies, games, shows I was into. Now I have the saved data from Yahoo Groups (which we're still trying to organize years later, lol) in addition to fanfic.
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It’s good that you’re honest with yourself
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Oh shit you really had to work for it back then I guess
I began hoarding some obscure old news articles, Internet articles on various subjects, strange and funny old commercials, fanfics, anime AMVs, "animated" manga chapters etc. to prove they existed in the first place, or to use them as a reference. I also kinda felt they might get deleted, and most of them did. You should prioritize saving useful stuff that might and will cause copyright infringement and stuff the government of your country would most likely ban. For instance, I downloaded a shit ton of animes with French and German subs and dub, but the pirate sites I saved them from are no longer around.
Oh my gosh. The amount of those old MVs that are no longer on YouTube is crazy! I wish I was hoarding stuff back before a lot of my favorite wrestling highlight MVs got nuked :/
High resolution maps; archived videos and PDFs of books, television shows, and radio shows produced by right-wing groups so they can’t be memory-holed; news archives; research papers; naturally a lot of hard to find media and movies, but not as much as i’d have thought.
Sheer curiosity and the desire to have the information I've read at my hands is what led me to hoarding data. What made me double down was seeing information I had already accessed be removed entirely or made harder to access.
I collect data in the form of physical books on Alchemy, Folklore, Cryptozoology and the Occult.
That’s a unique and awesome sounding collection! Seeing information disappear from the web is so disheartening, I’ve been lucky enough to be able to dig up a lot of removed info using the wayback machine! The possibility of things I find interesting being removed from the web definitely helps drive my collections.
Youtube videos, the usual three. I have some roms. Recipes. Documentaries. I am glad you are tailoring your hoard to your own interests and not just what you think is popular.
Nice collections, recipes is a good one! There are a tons of documentaries that get removed from streaming services and youtube all the time so thats a fantastic subject to archive! …. It takes so much time to organize and label my collections (which I really enjoy doing) that I couldn’t imagine doing it for something that I wasn’t interested in lol!
My collection of physical media got so large that it was excessively cumbersome. Regularly I’d want to watch something I owned that was unavailable to stream and I’d be unable to find the disk. One day I said fuck it and decided to make a home server. Still working on it and it will prob take another two years to get caught up (I own a ton of movies) but I’m happy with it.
Music videos and professionally filmed or venue filmed live concerts.
For me it was fanfiction. I have read fanfic since around 2006 but creating my personal archive is a recent interest (2024). There is one fandom that I really like the fanfic in that already has an archive built on fics form the early 2000s, this made me realize the importance of archiving, without people saving these great fics, they would have been lost. Now I try to add more recent fics to that archive as well as recovering lost fanfics.
Yay for archiving fanfic! I started saving fic too, back in 2023 - but I also have personal hand-saved copies of stuff from all over the 'net dating back to early 2000s, including stuff that I know is nowhere to be found anymore. I periodically go through and double-check what's deleted and back that up (beyond my usual backups) in a cloud storage folder. It's amazing how much has already been deleted in just two years… not to mention the archives of fanfic in the saved Yahoo Groups data which we don't even have sorted out enough to know what we have, lol.
Maps, survival manuals, fanfiction, books from Gutenberg. Lately I’ve been trying to curate collections to mimic a landscape or for lack of better term, vibe. Current projects is a bunch of Sassy magazines, Delia’s, and 90s commercials. All in all a good mix of anxious planning and escapism.
Started by saving the ebooks, fonts, movies, games, shows I was into. Now I have the saved data from Yahoo Groups (which we're still trying to organize years later, lol) in addition to fanfic.
The fact that websites can disappear or their content can change.
nice try fbi
Hentai and hentai.
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