Showerthoughts @lemmy.world TriflingToad @sh.itjust.works 2mo ago

YouTube, Wikipedia, and Archive.org are the modern day library of Alexandria

Had this thought the other day and tbh it's horrifying to think about the implications of one, or God forbid all, of them going down.
Stackoverflow too but that only applies to nerds haha

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One of those is not a non-profit foundation, and that's a Problem.
- And that one is not really comparable to the library of Alexandria.
  
  But it would probably be the most interesting to future archeologists. At least all the noncommercial videos people make about their lives. The "you" part of YouTube.
  
  i was thinking about how much human effort has gone into making instructional videos on how to do things and how all that content exists almost solely in the hands of Alphabet Corp

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