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Re:Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secre... by empath75 on Monday September 28, 2026 @09:26PM (#49886878)
I worked at AOL in the early 2000s and let me assure you, a lot of it did go away. I tried to rescue the club caribe code and it got erased with the last mainframes before i could. They had a lot of stuff backed up on tape but it was in dire shape and most of it get deleted in a datacenter migration.
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Re:Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secre... by Macha on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @03:56PM (#49899420)
I was there in the early 2010s and we did have older versions of AIM, netscape in an archive CVS (svn was the day to day system when I started). But then we moved to git and only stuff that had a designated owner got moved from cvs/svn to git so there was another round of losing old source code. And another in the migration to yahoo systems post merger.
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