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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 03:32 PM
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Do you think archived internet material will be of use to future historians?
An archaeologist 500 years in the future, looking through DU's archived forums, "These people really hated that President Bush. I mean they REALLY hated him."

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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 03:45 PM
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1. "What's an Olive Garden?"
"They revered this Al Gore person as a God."
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 03:46 PM
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2. They spoke reverently of...
..."the Cats of LOL."
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 03:47 PM
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3. Only if the owners make all of it available on the Internet Archive before they shut down
:)

archive.org
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 03:52 PM
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4. That's where I hang!
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=MrScorpio%20AND%20mediatype%3Aaudio%20AND%20collection%3Aopensource_audio
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 03:56 PM
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5. Cool!
I'll have to check it out :)
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