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Yes I just see it as a necessary evil. It's also nice to know if corporations ever decide to wipe all their content off the Internet or something I always have my trusty hard drives packed with all my favorite media.
I never understood this until I saw link rot in action. Great projects just disappeared when people forgot to renew domain names or hosting contracts. Others went away when big services like Geocities vanished. Wikipedia and Google censorship took out a lot of others.
What do you mean by "Wikipedia and Google censorship"? I'm actually super curious, are there examples of stuff being censored and removed from wikipedia for example? Like projects or games?
Yes, frequently. They also like to keep stuff off of Wikipedia with arbitrary "notability" rules. There used to be a great community of Wikipedia critics, but I've lost all the links.
You only underestimate the importance of archival and preservation once.
Regret is a powerful teacher!