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(12,875 posts)All of you should support the New Irish Monastery project or whatever it's called to archive culture before it is "disappeared" on the Interent.
Take that animated "All Your Base" gif of George Bush going to war in the middle east, circa 2001. Not on the Internet. Funny, I found a copy not on-line but on an old floppy. It was made in early 2001, and the gif was e-mailed to me as a "funny picture" then. I wonder why it's no longer circulating? I thought the Internet meant deathless, immortal knowledge would just flit from place to place thanks to the distributed nature of the net which was originally designed by academics and the military as a tool for institutions to preserve communications in the face of even the direst threat? Things that make you go hmmmmmmm.