Who saves the Web?

[mezrabad]

After viewing some old commercials and flyers for systems from the early 80s I got to thinking about how things will be 20 years from now when people are waxing nostalgic for their Dreamcast, Gamecube, PS2 and Xbox (in that order, heheh). There will probably a good supply of games due to the popularity of Video/Computer gaming now. Finding and playing the "oldies" will be less of a challenge than finding a 2600 and a Pitfall! cart is today. However, what about all the stuff that exists for the games on the web that will probably be 404 in 20 years?

Is there anyone archiving commercial or fan gaming web pages? Surely these things will be as interesting to the retrogamers of 20 years from now as the commercials and flyers from the 80s are to us. I just don't see how they're going to show up at a garage sale when they've all been flushed from the provervbial "global cache".

Just a thought.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

I know there's the Wayback Machine (forgot the URL though) that does some of this. And I know that where DP and my site are concerned, and probably many others as well, we're virtual pack rats as well as real ones - we never throw anything away. :D

[mezrabad]

Well, that's good to know. I've heard of the Wayback Machine, I'll have to check it out.

[Ed Oscuro]

Outside the Wayback Machine, I save a lot of stuff that interests me :)

[badinsults]

I found the first Super Nintendo website yesterday while seaching through Usenet:


http://dirkson.shacknet.nu/snes/

[bargora]

We do! We do!