I have entire albums in my old iTunes library that you literally cannot find online, anywhere. Hip hop beat tapes that were uploaded on a music blog in '07, and the blog was behind a Blogspot adult notice and so it never got archived, etc. Or old PHP-based music forums that did URLs via query param, which only ever got their homepage archived.
The pace of bitrot is freaking crazy!
Re:If you love a website, back it up
by shruggedatlas on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:57AM
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Wow, that's impressive. Have you considered uploading them somewhere so that their access via the internet can be restored? I'm sure someone would be interested in what you have to share and they are a precarious "bus factor of 1" away from never getting the chance.
The two things I go back to are music, and books. Even books not so much, but songs tickle a very specific part of my brain, that I want to reproduce over and over again, and then not for years, and then again. And when I want to go back and I can't, and I know I could, that really hurts, and I feel betrayed. So I do actually archive the music, even from streaming sites.