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Sometimes, the most revealing thing about a website isn’t what’s on it today - it’s what was on it when it first appeared. Before the redesigns, before the company changed hands, before the logo looked polished. The first snapshot in the Wayback Machine is more…
Continue reading...It started like most things do online, with a quiet announcement buried in a corporate blog post. Reddit would begin charging for API access. Not a little. A lot. Enough to choke off independent developers, kill third-party apps, and block the workflows of countless moderators…
Continue reading...You’ve got a dusty old blog you want to save. Or a software manual from the 90s. Or maybe a piece of independent journalism that vanished when a site went offline. What’s the best way to preserve it? For some, the answer is to upload…
Continue reading...When most people think about a will, they imagine bank accounts, real estate, maybe a watch or a photo album. But these days, the most personal, revealing, and irreplaceable parts of our lives aren’t stored in safes. They’re floating in inboxes, cloud drives, hard-to-reach folders,…
Continue reading...We spend years building digital lives - documents, drafts, family photos, business plans, side projects, saved memes. Most of it lives in the cloud: Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, iCloud. Convenient, accessible, always there… until it’s not. So here’s the question: What happens to all that…
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