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Re:World War II in the Pacific, narrated by my grandpa by dba7dba on Thursday May 29, 2014 @01:45AM (#7814923)
Around late 1990s and early 2000s, right when the internet started getting into people's homes with Mozilla web browser and IE, I noticed many memoirs that were put up by the old veterans themselves. I spent much time reading through them.

Sadly many of those memoirs are not around anymore as their accounts were shutdown or the web hosting company itself went out of business.

I fear much history is being lost in the transition from pen/paper era to digital era.

Re:World War II in the Pacific, narrated by my grandpa by ekianjo on Thursday May 29, 2014 @01:46AM (#7814927)
> Sadly many of those memoirs are not around anymore as their accounts were shutdown or the web hosting company itself went out of business.

How about the wayback machine ? Did it save anything ?

Re:World War II in the Pacific, narrated by my grandpa by saryant on Thursday May 29, 2014 @01:47AM (#7814930)
That's why I scraped my grandfather's unit's memoirs, just in case their account ever goes dead and someone else needs to host it.