Archiveteam Saves 272 Terabytes of MobileMe Websites From Deletion

[Swift]

Mobile Me

Well, go through yours to see if there's anything there, for any reason, that's a valuable personal effect, or something that you want private. It ends the 30th, so there's still a very little little time.

On the other hand, future historians will thank the Team who preserved much of these sites for the future. Sure, most of it will be just a few pictures you uploaded before you got bored with it. But in the future, popular historians will tell tales about you and your vacation with Mary Beth.

For anybody who has researched family genealogy, the picture era is a revelation. Look back to a relative who lived in say, 1800, and likely no idea of what they looked like survives.

 

[iSee]

^^^^
Ha, 200 years from now our ancestors will be sick of looking at pics of their long forgotten relatives (us) because there are so many damn pics available!

In fact, the backwards looking ones that might care will just bemoan that they can't really get to know us because they can only see 2D pics rather than ***fill in some yet-to-be-invented tech that will be considered way better than 2D pics in 200 years -- I think "telepasim"***.

No, sadly, the title of this story should be: "Archiveteam Saves 272 Terabytes of stuff, of which anything that anyone might care about has already been saved elsewhere"

E.g., their archive includes ~10BM of a digital birthday card I created ~10 years ago for a long forgotten co-worker (when such a thing was still novel enought that is was better than a store-bought card) and only exists on MobileMe because it happened to exist in a subfolder from a previous web site along with stuff I actually intended to copy to MM. Happy Birthday Jonah! Now and forever!

 

[garylapointe]

Daily Reminders

I'm surprised that Apple has only sent the two reminders this month. I'd have expected weekly and (for the last week) daily updates.

Unrelated to reminders: Some people are off on vacation for the 4th of July holiday. They're going to be kind of upset when they get home.

I'm kind of shocked Dropbox didn't offer a special to encourage people to migrate to them (and an app/script to copy it over for them). 20GB for $20 for the first year, $40 after that (same price they charge per GB as Dropbox other plans, yet 40% cheaper than MobileMe.

Poor marketing on their part, IMHO.

Gary

 

[finkmacunix]

Everyone . . . ten years from now. By then

Hey, it's not my fault some people didn't think about what they uploaded to the internet. Uploading something is like leaving it on the side of the road... Someone will pick it up.

 

[TallManNY]

Hey, it's not my fault some people didn't think about what they uploaded to the internet. Uploading something is like leaving it on the side of the road... Someone will pick it up.

Actually it is worse. It is like leaving it by a road that everyone in the world can walk by and each person can always take it and it duplicates itself so that another person can take it again. Right now our computers can't process all this floatsome that is out there. But ten years from now even with the exponential increase in stuff on the internet, I think that computers will nicely sort through all this stuff in real time.