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NEWS ABOUT FANDOM SPACES

Twitter Decides Not to Remove Inactive Accounts After User Backlash, by NewsGram. Archive Team offers this status report: "Twitter: Deleting inactive accounts sometime. IRC Channel #twitterdead (on EFnet)."

Verizon selling Tumblr to WordPress.com owner, but porn ban won’t go away, by Ars Technica. Link courtesy of our moderator morgandawn.

FANDOM ARCHIVED

Archive Team: Random Fandom at the Internet Archive.

Archive Team: Tumblr Takes a Tumble at the Internet Archive.

Archive Team: Yahoo Groups at the Internet Archive.

Vidding Fanvid Collection, at the Internet Archive; curated by Francecsa Coppa and morgandawn.

GENERAL

BGSU archivist working to document romance lit controversy, by Big Independent News. Talks about the difficulties of documenting digital material - though frankly, it doesn't sound as though they're dealing with more than routine issues.

The time machine shimmered back, by O. Westin of Micro SF/F. A cautionary tale.

The Old Internet Died And We Watched And Did Nothing, by BuzzFeed News. Link courtesy of our member frobisherw.

Preserving fandom history and heritage, by xie_xie_xie.

Avoiding Kamino's Fate: Archives, Archivists, and the Preservation of Works of Fandom, by Erin Lawrimore.

Silence in the library: Archives and the preservation of fannish history, by Versaphile at Transformative Works and Culture.

People at snowflake_challenge are writing about their fannish histories.

RESOURCE SITES

Archive Team. Trying to preserve every at-risk portion of the Internet. Wow. See their Yahoo! Groups page for their current work with our Discord team. Here is their page on LiveJournal and their valuable Deathwatch.

ds_ficminers, run by our member juniperberry. Dedicated to preserving Due South fandom history. Many of the archived stories are from LiveJournal.

Fanlore: LiveJournal.

lj.search. A search engine that searches a cache of LiveJournal, covering the years from 2000 to 2017.

OTW: LiveJournal.

Wayback tools:

Chrome: Wayback Machine and Firefox: Wayback Machine lets you save a page to the Wayback Machine or find a page at the WaybackMachine.
(Save Page Now offers a more sophisticated version of this preservation.
You can also submit URLs to the Wayback Machine by email.
WikiHow's instructions on how to browse the Wayback Machine. Because really, it's not obvious.

Wayback Machine tips:

All the caches of a url: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://example.net
All the caches of all the pages at a domain: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://example.net*
The latest cache of a url: https://web.archive.org/web/2/http://example.net
The latest cache in a particular month: https://web.archive.org/web/201401/http://example.net
The latest cache in a particular year: https://web.archive.org/web/2014/http://example.net
The latest cache in a particular decade: https://web.archive.org/web/200/http://example.net (i.e. 2000-2009)