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YouTube, Wikipedia, and Archive.org are the modern day library of Alexandria (sh.itjust.works)
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Had this thought the other day and tbh it's horrifying to think about the implications of one, or God forbid all, of them going down.
Stackoverflow too but that only applies to nerds haha

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[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 75 points 4 weeks ago

All the more reason to data horde. The costs of storing these libraries are going down, and it is likely that everyone can have their own copy of it all in the near future.

https://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html

[-] lud@lemm.ee 25 points 4 weeks ago

The amount of data is also increasing constantly and by a lot.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 9 points 4 weeks ago

The article they linked goes over that. It's a really good read

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