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Just in case the article link does not show up or you want to share this outside tumblr: http://ianmilligan.ca/2013/04/03/yahoo-sucks-historians-wake-up/Since you’re here on Tumble and probably also library-related in some way, and because more than a few of you enjoy Avenger butts (you know who you are!), I’m going to assume you care at least a tiny bit about fandom history.
Which is why Yahoo!’s decision to delete 15 years of Yahoo Messages history is appalling and a worthy project for some volunteer time. Ian Milligan discusses the problem at the link above. As a longtime participator and lurker in several online fandoms going back to Harry Potter pre-movie fandom and even some X-Files groups, I would really hate to see the discussions, fan works, and general record of enthusiasm be lost to history.
Hop over to Milligan’s blog to see what we can do to help!
Aug. 2nd, 2013
Submitted to a newsletter in 1998:
"For those who wonder why I would destroy items, I'll say it's hard enough to sell original classic zines for dirt cheap prices. I would never go to the bother of trying to sell thousands of old n/l and adzines. So [the] five year n/l The LOC Connection as well as ancient Datazines, Treklink adult supplements, the long running Zine Connection, many of the On The Doubles, and lots of neat stuff became landfill. That's probably what has happened with most everyone. You have to have acres of space just to store the materials — besides being physically healthy and in possession of a good memory to be able to work with it..... [But] computers aren't the answer to the space problem. Who would want to scan everything to store in a computer or on disks?"
"For those who wonder why I would destroy items, I'll say it's hard enough to sell original classic zines for dirt cheap prices. I would never go to the bother of trying to sell thousands of old n/l and adzines. So [the] five year n/l The LOC Connection as well as ancient Datazines, Treklink adult supplements, the long running Zine Connection, many of the On The Doubles, and lots of neat stuff became landfill. That's probably what has happened with most everyone. You have to have acres of space just to store the materials — besides being physically healthy and in possession of a good memory to be able to work with it..... [But] computers aren't the answer to the space problem. Who would want to scan everything to store in a computer or on disks?"