The DUTY to Archive?
 

In the beginning, I think we thought the Web was a simple *mimic* of paper publishing. It utilized a medium that, like Radio and TV, rendered less substantial *versions* of things, in exchange for wider, faster distribution.

But, now that the *true* Repositories of our Human Record are looking to be in digital form, we (Webmasters) can no longer belittle our role in the writing of that Human Record.

I was just curious what measures, if any, y'all took to set your shit up for like the looooooooooong term. Has anybody thought about things like Server Insurance, which covers your hosting costs after you die - :1orglaugh

But seriously, do y'all ever think about the *future* like that, when you upload, or is it always the pressures of the momentary buck?













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I don't know if I'm alone, but i got into porn by accident. I starting posting porn pic montages to yahoo groups and clucbs as they were back then for fun in 1995 and before I knew I it had over a million people in my network/mailing list. It's only recently after someone from the business end of the biz hit me up that I started to look at it as a money source.

I think maybe i'm not alone and we all jumped in and go day by day thinking about making money without thinking long term, but we should.