TDWTF Museum
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I found this thread of Alex uploading images to the site, because whatever he was using to power the front page was probably front page worthy
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/264/images-thread-ignore?_=1689602616094
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The oldest version of it I found on the web archive
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2005, June, after whatever that uploading images thread was about
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@apapadimoulis said in Community Server 2.0:
Just to provide an update -- I've downloaded CS 2.0 and it's looking pretty good. I'm looking forwardt o getting this site runnign on it. Here's what needs to be done before ...
-> Create / Modify CS2.0 Skin to have our logo
-> Create main page like the one now
-> Add RSS Feed like one now
-> Transfer all dataThese dont seem to difficult to do, I hope to start diggging in and figuring out how to accomplish these things.
The Community Server
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2008
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2009
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2015
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Forums on 2005
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@sockpuppet7 Now I'm curious if the "programmer or serial killer" thread is about MurderFS.
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The famous CS tag cloud, I didn't see it at it's time
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In 2014, there was some zalgo and emojis on the tag cloud
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2015, we had a forum software that doesn't look good on the archive
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NodeBB works better for the historic preservation of WTFs
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@sockpuppet7 said in TDWTF Museum:
The famous CS tag cloud,
Good times.
Filed Under: Breast Programming
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@sockpuppet7 said in TDWTF Museum:
2015, we had a forum software that doesn't look good on the archive
Yup:
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@boomzilla to be fair, it got better
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@sockpuppet7 said in TDWTF Museum:
@boomzilla to be fair, it got better
I wonder how much cajoling it took to convince Jeff to make that happen.
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Found one archived snapshot of TDWTF forum running a Discourse version that already renders correctly there:
Link: http://web.archive.org/web/20150618070910/https://what.thedailywtf.com/
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Now I made a snapshot of this thread, so you can wayback while you wayback, or something: http://web.archive.org/web/20230811120935/https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/28928/tdwtf-museum
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@Zerosquare said in TDWTF Museum:
@sockpuppet7 said in TDWTF Museum:
Discourse
@sockpuppet7 said in TDWTF Museum:
renders correctly
Think you mean
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@sockpuppet7 said in TDWTF Museum:
Now I made a snapshot of this thread, so you can wayback while you wayback, or something: http://web.archive.org/web/20230811120935/https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/28928/tdwtf-museum
There are people who do this sort of thing professionally. They work for big libraries, and are trying to record the internet as much as they can so that it will be possible to study it academically in decades to come.
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@dkf said in TDWTF Museum:
They work for big libraries
internet
study it academicallyIsn't it more suited for psychiatry departments?
(or rather, a whole lifetime)
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@Applied-Mediocrity Maybe. The librarians are looking to enable whatever people 100 years from now might want to know about what, for us, contemporary culture. They're not too fussed about current researchers.
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@dkf said in TDWTF Museum:
There are people who do this sort of thing professionally. They work for big libraries, and are trying to record the internet as much as they can so that it will be possible to study it academically in decades to come.
Isn't that roughly how/why archive.org itself got started?
