Back when MySpace was bigger than google and facebook, a huge number of bands used the site as a promotional tool, uploading millions of hours of music onto the site. A year ago, many users reported that a lot of tracks had stopped working, and site administrators promised they were working on a solution. Wait a second, MySpace is still around?
It is, and the site never actually made backups of a great deal of content. Admins have come clean and admitted the files - including music, pictures and videos - are all lost. That's 50 million songs, or everything uploaded between 2004 and 2015!
This is most likely the eventual way of all things digital - music, pictures, writing. Anything that is digital only may never be known by future generations. We ought to be making artifacts.
That stuff I saved to 3.5" floppy disk 20 years ago and said, "naaah, I don't need to print that, why waste the paper...I have it on disk". Haha. I could probably break into Ft. Knox with more success than I'd have trying to retrieve--let alone open--those files now.
We'll be saying the same about Facebook at some point.
For sure digitisation had took a long leap lately. We still remember storing music in casettes!
That was a good through back. Keep flourishing.
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Very true! I actually had a client a short time ago that was writing a book and some of the information he needed for his book was on an old 3.5" disk. I had to dig an old laptop out of my junk pile that still had the drive and I was actually able to recover the information for him. I always try to make sure that I have things like pictures backed up in several places. Even CD's and USB drives flake out over time...
nice - but myspace is gone ... there is no way back - fb will follow sometimes
cheers