A storyied ephemera shop "plan b",Halifax,ns was closing,and a 3/4" brodcast vhs machine was gifted to me,and much latter upon investigation revealed a tape inside,with "Doctor Who" and an episode that is too blurred to read Also have an ancient steel wire recorder with a role of wire,and going back even further a pair of wax drum dictaphone recorders with drums there are of course ,truely monsterous collections out there lurking with the epic storys known to just a few or perhaps only one disinterested guardian/custodian,and these will keep cropping up for centuries new motszart piece popped up recently was sitting on a shelf safe and sound for all this time

Case in point: Marion Stokes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Stokes

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/marion-stokes-televisi...

a noted Philadelphia legend who also made a large fortune on early Apple stock! she's as close you can get to a modern folk tale

I've started saving web pages, since several of my favorite websites went offline, and some even self-deleted from WayBack Machine.

The impression I get is that if I want something to continue existing, it's my responsibility to make that happen.

On a darker note, this appears to be true of civilization in general...

I find it interesting to think about this while listening to historical content like the Fall of Civilizations podcast. Tl;dr, if you want something to survive for millennia, it needs to be carved in stone or you need to arrange for monks to keep transcribing it

I only started to really appreciate having a web page archive after cataloging the coffee I drank, which often have pages full of detail about the beans until they sell out and then, poof!, they’re taken offline.

I think archive.org holds onto copies of websites, even if they're no longer accusable on the wayback machine, as long as they don't get a direct deletion request.

If a domain gets parked and someone adds a robots.txt that disallows all, past versions become unavailable in most cases. Very annoying.

My Observation: If the item is kept long enough, just about EVERYTHING becomes valuable. (I guess that's because other similar items are lost or destroyed over time )