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IT BELONGS ~~IN A MUSEUM~~ ON MY HARDRIVE
I was thinking Internet Archive, but either works.
Came here to say this. Me and my wife were playing games from DOS and win95/98 days thanks to the internet archive recently. It really felt like digging up memories.
Sorry Dr NAS, no time for love
SO DO YOU!
Throw him over the side.
".…..no ticket!"
"(smirk) Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory."
In a way a lot of us end up becoming amateur librarians. When the big megaservers get hit with something nasty, or they decide to purge it all for AI datasets or something. (Idk it's a stupid timeline anything is possible lol)
I like to think our fellow amateur archivists who started collecting such things for personal reasons will be a force for preserving meaningful artifacts of human experience.