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◊note[#:date "2015-05-12"]{
◊blockquote{E-book backup is a physical, tangible, human readable copy of an electronically stored
novel. The purchased contents of an e-book reader were easily photocopied and clip-bound to create
a shelf-stable backup for the benefit of me, the book consumer. I can keep it on my bookshelf
without worry of remote recall. A second hardcover backup has been made with the help of an online
self-publishing house.
◊footer{◊link['eb]{Ebook backup} by Jesse England (◊link['rg]{via Roberto Greco})}
}
◊url['eb]{http://jesseengland.net/index.php?/project/e-book-backup/}
◊url['rg]{http://robertogreco.tumblr.com/post/118835221028/ebook-backup-jesse-england-2012-via}
}
◊note[#:date "2015-05-13"]{
◊blockquote{Unlike with other digital expressions, format is not the problem: HTML, CSS, and
backward-compatible web browsers will be with us forever. The problem is, authors pay for their own
hosting.
…Keeping your website active is probably the last thing your family will wish to focus on in their
grief. As they move on, attending to your digital affairs may not be high on their task list.
◊footer{Jeff Reifman, ◊link['wh]{Hosting Your Website After Your Death} }
}
◊url['wh]{https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/hosting-your-website-after-death--cms-23492}
}
◊note[#:date "2015-10-15"]{
◊blockquote{The web, as it appears at any one moment, is a phantasmagoria. It’s not a place in any
reliable sense of the word. It is not a repository. It is not a library. It is a constantly changing
patchwork of perpetual nowness.
You can’t count on the web, okay? It’s unstable. You have to know this. …If a sprawling Pulitzer
Prize-nominated feature in one of the nation’s oldest newspapers can disappear from the web,
anything can. “There are now no passive means of preserving digital information,” said Abby Rumsey,
a writer and digital historian. In other words if you want to save something online, you have to
decide to save it. Ephemerality is built into the very architecture of the web, which was intended
to be a messaging system, not a library.
◊footer{Adrienne LaFrance, ◊link['rtw]{Raiders of the Lost Web}}
◊url['rtw]{http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/raiders-of-the-lost-web/409210/}
}
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◊note[#:date "2015-05-12"]{
◊blockquote{E-book backup is a physical, tangible, human readable copy of an electronically stored
novel. The purchased contents of an e-book reader were easily photocopied and clip-bound to create
a shelf-stable backup for the benefit of me, the book consumer. I can keep it on my bookshelf
without worry of remote recall. A second hardcover backup has been made with the help of an online
self-publishing house.}
◊attrib{◊link['eb]{Ebook backup} by Jesse England (◊link['rg]{via Roberto Greco})}
◊url['eb]{http://jesseengland.net/index.php?/project/e-book-backup/}
◊url['rg]{http://robertogreco.tumblr.com/post/118835221028/ebook-backup-jesse-england-2012-via}
}
◊note[#:date "2015-05-13"]{
◊blockquote{Unlike with other digital expressions, format is not the problem: HTML, CSS, and
backward-compatible web browsers will be with us forever. The problem is, authors pay for their own
hosting.
…Keeping your website active is probably the last thing your family will wish to focus on in their
grief. As they move on, attending to your digital affairs may not be high on their task list.}
◊attrib{Jeff Reifman, ◊link['wh]{Hosting Your Website After Your Death} }
◊url['wh]{https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/hosting-your-website-after-death--cms-23492}
}
◊note[#:date "2015-10-15"]{
◊blockquote{The web, as it appears at any one moment, is a phantasmagoria. It’s not a place in any
reliable sense of the word. It is not a repository. It is not a library. It is a constantly changing
patchwork of perpetual nowness.
You can’t count on the web, okay? It’s unstable. You have to know this. …If a sprawling Pulitzer
Prize-nominated feature in one of the nation’s oldest newspapers can disappear from the web,
anything can. “There are now no passive means of preserving digital information,” said Abby Rumsey,
a writer and digital historian. In other words if you want to save something online, you have to
decide to save it. Ephemerality is built into the very architecture of the web, which was intended
to be a messaging system, not a library.}
◊attrib{Adrienne LaFrance, ◊link['rtw]{Raiders of the Lost Web}}
◊url['rtw]{http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/raiders-of-the-lost-web/409210/}
I can envision only one sort-of-practical way the web can be “preserved” in any meaningful sense of
the word: a giant microfiche archive with a card index. Yes, it would be inconvenient to use. It’s
also the only option likely to be useable at all in 100 years.
}
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