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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just encountered this. I looked for images of "White House Rose Garden" and 90% of I got was images of it getting bulldozed for getting paved over per Trump's recent command.

So I looked for images from 1980-2010 and 90% of I got was historical stuff NOT from that time range -- like yellowed photos of how it looked before Jackie O' made it the Rose Garden, or pictures of MLK or other random gardens.

There HAVE to be images of the Rose Garden from before Melania ripped out the trees in Trump's previous term. Where did they go?

The best collection I could find was on this unsecured site: http://tysto.com/grounds/rose-garden.htm

After that, it was, sadly, two dog pics on a Daily Mail article. One with a Bush the other with Regan and Thatcher: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2440219/George-W-Bush-pays-tribute-dead-dog-13th-birthday.html

Most sites only have stuff like this current/bulldozer stuff: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a65124864/white-house-rose-garden-paved-photos/

Where did all the other photos go??????

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, you'd think it wouldn't be this hard. There's White House archives online, but they all seem to be text only. Articles about the rose garden, but never any pictures. And when it's an article with pictures from 2000-2016, it's only historical pictures, as if showing a contemporary picture would be the most redundant thing to do in an article about a rose garden.

Is tysto someone's personal archive of whitehousemuseum.org? I don't get the domain name, the home page mentions the other domain (which is for sale). Wikipedia lists whitehousemuseum.org under "External links" for a collection of photos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No idea what tysto is. but I wanted to warn people that it is not secure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

It also looks like that 1973 picture of Nixon's bedroom is newer than the website design, so I'm not surprised it isn't using https.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Data rot is a serious problem.

I suspect that our time period will end up as an information dark age to future historians.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

The Digital Dark Age is definitely a thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

i just want a clip of the You Do You sketch from Portlandia but its nowhere

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not true--it's still there, but it's not SEO-optimized so you'll never find it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have a couple of gigas of unique data, videogames + sources from the early mobile game era, don't know what to do with it. Gotta find some data-museum or something 😋

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Archive.org

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can you just upload stuff there?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Uploading – A Basic Guide – Internet Archive Help Center https://help.archive.org/help/uploading-a-basic-guide/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Thanks! I looked around but it's a jungle there, no idea where to even start, so thanks for the link, will check out!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

it’s good to have pirates for friends

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Exactly. Just recently found out a favorite creator of mine has shut down his youtube channel and all their videos spanning over a decade are just gone. Feelsbadman.jpg.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yep. I archive channels I like locally.

[–] Melatonin 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm looking at you, Little Big Planet user created content.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://littlebigarchive.com/

I found all my old levels.

[–] Melatonin 6 points 1 day ago

The hero we need

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Basically nothing from before 2010 that I posted online can be found except for some fragments on the Wayback Machine.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

It is more of, if the librarians don’t have a copy; it will not exist in the next 20 years

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Murphy's law

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Or more accurately: Finagle's law, often confused with Murphy's law. Murphy's law is more about UI design that shouldn't allow for mistakes. Finagle's law is about bad luck and the general perversity of the universe.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Murphy’s law predates anything that could be considered UI design.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Murphy's law is that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong eventually

It did potentially originate from an aerospace engineer talking about safe plane design, but the law as everyone knows it is the one above.

Finagle's law is an extension of Murphy's law by replacing "eventually" with "at the worst possible moment"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Anything scandalous embedded from photobucket is safe though. It was as if millions of forum users cried out in horror at once c. 2018

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Assume anything you post will live on. Everything else could vanish so save it if you need the evidence.