On: Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place

[toomuchtodo]

As someone who subscribes to ArchiveTeam's philosophy, it's going to be a dark day when the time comes to scrape Facebook before it goes under with that much data behind the scenes.

[zeckalpha → toomuchtodo]

It's already backed up to Blueray. They'll just hand it over.

[ivank → zeckalpha]

Yeah, right. How and who exactly would they hand that over to, given that there are privacy settings on the photos that people expect to have respected?

[BtM909 → ivank]

Sarcasm son....

[ivank → BtM909]

You'd be surprised at how many people assume these bigcos are open to doing the right thing when they're shutting down.

[dx211 → ivank]

Hey, I've still got my complimentary MySpace zip file kicking around somewhere.

[jsmeaton → dx211]

I had a hard drive crash on me with all of my photos some years back and my "backup" strategy failed. Dumping a myspace backup got me some of my most precious photos back. Thanks MySpace!

[ArekDymalski → dx211]

Even more. Most people don't even realize that things like FB aren't eternal.

[nl → ivank]

It isn't even clear what "the right thing" is here.