What's the most useful thing you saved from the internet that later went away?
>>100116271Why is it taking too long to load?
>>100116271>What's the most useful thing you saved from the internet that later went away?obscure games, mmo clients, mods, all kinds of data in general
>>100116285you're getting ddos'd
a 3gp porn video shot in 2002
>>100116314why? what are its contents?
>>100116308OH FUCK!!!!
basically things that get deleted or have very slow speed and eventually get forgotten by the internetand things that are immensely useful to store locally given the fact that google is now entirely useless and comically inferior even to grep
>>100116396>>100116308>>100116285Wasn't me.
>>100116401Good point. There are reasons to save something even if it'll stay on the internet forever:>maybe you can index it better, as you said>it's a big, slow download>you expect your network security to be worse in the future
>>100116291>obscure games, mmo clients, mods, all kinds of data in generalWhat else besides the vidya stuff?
>>100116651everything
>>100116271feet pron i got from youtube
I have a lot of MP3s I saved from the early 2000s.Should still be good quality right?
>>100116271PortableAppz build of Photoshop CS6 portable. I lost my portable build of Office 2010 and still miss it, though LibreOffice is good enough now at least.
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2020's TikTok
Porn
>>100117107What's special about it? It hasn't gone away, right?>guy who lip-sync Dreams while riding a skateboard and drinking cranberry juiceBased.
>>100116271the internet won't go away, but its history will.
>>100117235porn is still available on the internet, anon
>>100117630you don't know what you're talking about, maggot
>>100116271lots of porn, some archives and guides, things that are posted here and not archived anywhere else
>>100117575same reason to archive anythingaccounts, videos, and comments disappear all the time
Some obscure trance song that ended up getting delisted from every streaming site.
few asmr channels
>>100116285cause I sock your cock
>>100116951something something rotational velocidensity
>>100119102things like that have happened enough times to me that I started hoarding
pretty recently, v the musical. The bandcamp got nuked.
Amateur porn (you know which kind)
>>100116271What wikis are good to have an offline copy of?
>>100121020obscure stuff with iffy hostingcontroversial stuff (Maybe ED)
>>100120923That's pretty much what got me to ditch streaming services and instead download my music. Every time I check back at Spotify, i find more and more songs disappearing. I feel like it's gonna get worse with decade-old labels as well. They're probably near their expiration date.
>>100120994Gross Domestic Product
Videogame source code
>>100121122What game?
>>100120994>>100121082not just GDP (PPP) but also other forms of amateur porn. Real amateur not pornhub shit is the hottest porn out there but it's rarer and rarer. I started hoarding it around 2018 because, for some reason, I had a hunch they'd crack down on amateur porn (which they did, in 2019-2020). They managed to erase it off the internet aside from a few websites, like socialmediagirls, anonib, some chans
>>100116271My livestreamed gayming session on Faceberg that got muted because of music copyrights.Funny enough, the music was part of the ost of the game I was playing. My mistake trying to use faceberg like an infinite hard drive.
>>100119012it's useful if you remember reading a post a few years ago that helped you figure out a problem but you won't find it in 2024 either because google sucks ass or because they deleted it or re-launched that website
There was a guy on pornhub who would upload lesbian scenes from tv/film with the music edited out. Saved a bunch of their vids before the big purge.
>>100119102>>100120923>>100121058Huh. I didn't think about music suddenly disappearing. Apparently it's a thing.
amateur porn from places like xtube
>>100123197It usually happens to music that isn't mainstream popular. They disappear for any reason but most of the time it has to do with expiring licenses/contracts or labels shutting down. Pretty much why you should start saving your music before this happens to your favorite stuff.
>>100121151Bro wtf you talking about onlyfans and cam sites have made amateur content 10x as prevalent as before, I know 5 girls irl who have an onlyfans. I don't think I've even watched non JAV studio stuff in a long ass time.
>>100116271I've been hoarding Xfiles episodes.It's partially nostalgia but mostly it totally helps me sleep at night. I think it's the mellow violin playing throughout the episodes.I'm not a big fan however the nostalgia hits me right in the feels
>>100116271You'll think it's stupid but obscure Kpop labels often delete their old music videos after the idols' contracts expire or the company dissolves. Some of them are special to me for sentimental reasons so I'm glad I save them all.
>>100124376It would be a really bad sign if X Files episodes got wiped from the internet
>>100124419>sentimental reasons
>>100124456I know what you're implying but I really meant sentimental reasons. Some of them remind me of a time when I was a lot happier and listened to them a lot, and that's all
>>100116271i've had gigabit internet for so long i've forgotten what it looks like for images load like this, thanks for reminding me and humbling me anon :)
Probably the only useful thing I ever saved was a tutorial for setting up a wireguard tunnel to talk over a shadowsocks proxy. Pretty neat stuff, it got taken down for quite a while and it was nice to be able to post it for people who needed it. Powerful tool to fight governmental censorship, makes a fully encrypted tunnel just look like https traffic. Also good for bypassing deep packet inspection from a corporate firewall you can access your homelab from work. Dont be surprised if your job suspects corporate espionage if you do this though.It's back up for now for anyone interested in saving it in case you need it. https://oilandfish.net/posts/wireguard-shadowsocks.html
>>100124487I had gig for 2 years, but realized it was a waste of money for me at least. Only thing I ever downloaded that I wanted quickly was movie torrents and back on 300Mb, it only takes as long as it takes to make some popcorn to download a movie and everything else I can wait a while on. I'm not too pressed about download speeds.
>>100124480I hope your life becomes like that again, anon
>>100124498Actually useful thing, thanks
I saved a bunch of beach tits. Thousands of pics and a few hundred webms and vids. I don't coom over them like I used to, but it's still nice to have, since all the sites deleted theirs
>>100124654For sure, I've never really gotten data hoarding in large quantities, but as soon as I saw that, I knew that someone needed to save it.
asian hookers leak edition from /t/ its amateurish and i loved itsome anime,movies,VR porn i got nothing else to torrent these days
>>100124420>Xfiles wiped from the internetSo I would just turn on the TV in my room set the time and go to sleep to like 3 episodes of xfiles until the FX online channel decided to paywall them online and halt all free broadcasting for a little over a year.This is when I realized that everything we have in abundance right now could be gone tomorrow. I was naive in thinking that it would just run forever at the same time slot. I've been hoarding since and I'm still missing like 100 episodes. I can get them, I just haven't had time and I don't trust that my machine won't commit sudoku if I leave it downloading all day. It's an micro PC and has a decent chipset but the fan is weak and there isn't enough ventilation on the case.
The January 2009 English translation of the Higurashi Onikakushi demo.
>>100116271Edgy/troll songs from some local bands. They got deleted later because feminist globohomo couldn't handle some bad words.
>>100121250>TheirSo it was a tranny?
>>100124530Same but 150mb for me. Just because its only 13/€ month.
>>100125236I would genuinely go lower if I could haha, 300 is the lowest speed either of my 2 provide. I'm at 55 a month for the $300.
>>100120923desu thats why i started my own home media server, i had sign ups to half a dozen services and prices kept climbing; then stuff i wanted to watch kept getting deleted only to pop up on an alternative service because the license expired. I did some napkin math and realized i could literally buy two 8tb drives a year for the money i was paying the streaming services at that point so i just went full autism, canceled everything and built my own jellyfin server.they fucked it up, it used to be cheap and convenient and i was too lazy to give a shit, but when it became a hassle and expensive i ghosted. fuck em, now i keep an eye out for 2nd hand blu-rays, classic movies and tv show box sets and i rip them.
rare flacs of 80's jap citypop from WHAT.cdI can't find these anywhere and I've searched on a few well known music trackers even went to rutracker and not there. I did find some ddl's on some very old websites but they're probably viruses. Might upload them and post on /mu/ some day
>>100116271Massive 2000s anime fansite. Isnt even on archive.org I dont think
>>100116271>Both PDFs of Horus RA As The Archontic Alien Parasite, Parts I and II. Heavily scrubbed when it was being talked about.>Cookie's Bustle after watching Vinny play it, but quickly snagged it before the fat autistic fuck tried to scrub it from the web via DMCA.>Some other shit too I guess
>>100119102>>100123197I wonder if they were perfectly encoded to have 432hz, because youtube has scrubbed those in the past, since that frequency DOES actually heal your spirit and soul...
>>100116994There are tutorials on how to make apps portable
>>100119012That doesn't mean it's useful
>>100116308your*
>>100123578No, that's just home-made professional.
ITT: anons don't know what useful means
>>100126987Good thing nobody said it was
>>100116285why is your name a dot instead of "Anonymous"
Home movies from long abandoned Vimeo and YouTube channels, the original Everything Is Terrible channel before their account got nuked, Cookie’s Bustle
frazzledrip.mp4
>>100117630we all thought that until pornhub decided to delete 2/3s of its best content
>>100124419>>100124480Lmao@thatfag
>>100129449 (me)also, i am an idiot
I have all the sims 2 dlc from when they used to have an online shop.
>>100130364this is not me albeit
>>100116271nothing of note yet, but I'm ready for it
Memes.
>>100116337hot sex with your young mother.
>>100130454same
>>100132109>>100130454How much do these cost?I have like a $200 budget and I want to get something that I can save all the porn and anime I enjoyed over the years.
>>100116271porn hoarding anon here. hello again.this weekend i rtfm'd python's scrapy toolset and wrote a spider to crawl popular porn phpbb sites. the problem with these sites is that i never remember to check them all, and good content is dropped by the paywall'd hosts all the time (especially keep2share). so my spider crawls several forums, selects all images that were posted "Yesterday" (not "Today" because it'd be an incomplete record, and not "<date>" because fuck datetime arithmetic), and loads them into a new piwigo gallery with a json linking the name of the file back to the forum post so i can find the download link. this morning, i had ~3000 images to search through and found 3 videos i wanted; it took about 15m.as always, i am not autistic, just bored. this is my hobby. thanks for reading.
>>100116271MTCDC-NMCI dunno, seems rare, so I once uploaded it on some seedbox and uploaded deal of it.Once I managed to upload the series on mega, but it was a fucking chore.
>>100132207You're not bored, you're sick. Your addictions have been weaponized against you and you try to cope with them because you have some complementary tech skills. The reality is your future is being robbed from you. You are being made complacent. You are successful being deliberately manipulated.It is not your fault, but it is within your power to snap out of it.
>>100132109what filesystem do you use? are those network attached?
>>100132409hey man, appreciate the concern, but you've missed the mark. i'm happily married and have a fairly normal sex life for a man of my age, i just also like porn.
>>100132179I have 5 drives not pictured because their stuck in shipment hell but I spent around $3,200 for a total of 19 18TB drives. With $200 you could buy one of the 18TB drives that I bought and have some change left over for a decent hba.>>100132423yes it's a zfs pool each on two servers in my closet. The fan I have attached to the lsi card I have in the first server might be burning up and is causing a drive to not online...
>>100116271Music.Evidences.
>>100132546the fan is failing and is causing the lsi card to burn up*not sure how I messed that sentence up
>>100130433Sorry, it actually is me lol
>>100125046I want to kakusu my oni inside satoko's higurashi
>>100132546how do you use zfs on windows?
>>1001162714chan memes from before 2010
>>100132546>With $200 you could buy one of the 18TB drives that I bought and have some change left over for a decent hba.wow you weren't kiddingwhat's the catch? are these things loud as fuck?
>>100135626>what's the catch?the catch is that hard drive will eventually fail and you will lose all datayou need at least two of them + an offsite backup (aka 18 terabytes of cloud storage or another 18 terabyte hard drive at someone else's house)this is why "storage is cheap" niggers are fucking retards, they never account for redundancy
>>100126858Could you link to Horus-Ra As The Archontic Alien Parasite parts, I assume they're pdf's or something and it sounds interesting as fuck
>>100135626some are retired drives from datacenters while others are refurbished and/or off-spec drives. make of that what you will--and if you're putting anything important on those drives you need to make sure you have proper backups of it. I wouldn't be caught dead running only one of these without any redundant copies. turns out that drive that dropped out of my first server's array was just straight up dead. it might have showed warning signs but I never checked SMART logs. fortunately the drive was under warranty and I'll have my replacement within the week. though, even if the raidz2 completely died, I have a mirror of my data on the second server (as well as some older copies of my data on tape, I'm overdue for an update on my tape backups). point is, no matter the drive, you need to prioritize having good backups.
turns out "the internet is forever" redditors were wrong. your local DARPANET matrix rewrites history cyclically and will continue to do so until they achieve their desired outcome (total slavery). save what you can and remember the rest.
Nothing, everything I've downloaded since 2001 I have been able to download it again and sometimes with better quality than before.
>>100120994MODS
This is a shot in the dark but fuck it. Does anybody have this cringe gamergate edit of the final battle from Gurren Lagann but instead of the show its a bunch of alt right E-celebs and the subtitles are about leftist vs gamers? I have this video but its in shit quality, I know I saw it in at least 720p before. I think it was called Tengen Toppa GamerGate
>>100123373i have a lot of 2000s era techno that i personally recorded from di.fm and happyhardcore when i was a teenager, a lot of it is from the 90s which i think is the best era of that. probably not widely available today
>>100138772>di.fmholy fucking shit that takes me back.
the first Pokémon season has no complete english subs (only 4kids retarded botchering), but some group translated everything to portuguese directly from japanese. they died though and it's impossible to find their files nowadays. still have these subs to this day.
>>100138818it's still around to this day and im still a subscriber :3
>>100138865based. did you think about sharing it somewhere? I'm sure there'd be people willing to translate that into english.
>>100138772>probably not widely available todayThat is true. A lot of them are pretty obscure nowadays. You probably can't even find them on Soulseek. And when that happens, I resort to looking for them through these shitty mp3 sites. I fucking hate people who do have the songs but decide to gatekeep the ripped versions or put them behind an expensive paywall. People who do that are scum of the earth.
>>1001162718=D An entire CDN
>>100116271betas of a few games
>>100116271...nothingFuck what have I been doing.
>>100117107What's so special about the tiktoks you saved? Seems like just a lot of annoying junk tiktok vids.
>>100116271tons of random pixiv artists work and non-h doujinsometimes nips go full autistic and delete all their work, or get hired by a big company and delete all their smut
>>100117235>>100116271OP I thought about it for a while and I think my only conclusion is the same as this anon. Porn.i wish i could answer some pdf on physics or some instructional thing but i have never ran into a case where i couldn't find it archived somewhere. may be slightly easier to find if i have saved a pdf though.
I don't know about "useful". And I don't have it immediately on me, it's rotting away on a floppy disk somewhere in storage: an alpha-development tech demo for a videogame that never was finished. It was going to be called Sabotage, a full-3D FPS for MS-DOS. Its engine was coded by a solo developer but he didn't have the time/resources to gel it out into a full game. The tech demo itself definitely showcased a full 3D engine with lightmaps (you could also add new lights to bake into the lightmap by pressing spacebar), etc just like Quake ultimately had. I'm about 75% certain this demo was released a year before Quake hit the market. I don't remember the programmer's name, all I can remember is he had some Polish or Slavic-sounding surname. The only other detail I remember is that he was going to include vehicular combat levels in addition to regular FPS combat gameplay.
>>100139552these usually get archived on boorus
>>100116271I still have the millions of comments from all the threads before the destruction of original finnish imageboard Ylilauta ('kovokausti')
A treasure trove of documentation for my car, including stuff that only the dealership usually has access to. Ended up going down with a forum.
>>100140875I forgot I built an actual search engine for this, using ElasticSearch and all. Can't bother to install it but here's some proof of data
>>100139527You don't have to hoard data that isn't important to you. There's a very real and tangible cost to hoarding in addition to the countless hours you may spend. Many just think it's worth it to preserve whatever they liked
>>100116271It's been two days but your image still not loading. I need to change my internet provider and upgrade PC.
>>100123197Happens all the time, unless you store it yourself it's as good as gone
some hentai games from 2011-2014
>>100132514This. I just like porn and sexual activities. It has always been hot to me. That is why it makes me cringe when people try to shame others for liking porn and sex in general it's literally in our biology to like sex and porn.
>>100116271I've got 100k pics of anime girls in my Hydrus DB
I just blew diarhea out my dirty fuckim ASS xDDD
>>100141526You may want to keep them there, as according to other hoarding boards copyright lobbyists are going especially hard on sites hosting anime pics right now
>>100141533Deeply concerned
>>100116271Rare gore/bdsm porn
>>100116271Deleted cute & funny asmr vids :3
>>100116337this>>100130824i am your dad, zoomer
