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(DIR) Post #B6wFxym1zEp8cYu4WG by internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org
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🧵1/3 What if the history of games, films, and culture disappears not because it is lost… but because no one is allowed to keep it? 🎮⚠️Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia & pioneering video game designer, reflects on how fragile cultural memory becomes when preservation depends on luck rather than systems.Read his essay Preserving Gaming History, part of VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive.🔗 https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/131/
(DIR) Post #B6wFy34G1PmPwFSgU4 by internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org
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2/3 Mechner recounts discovering that even major archives can vanish, forcing creators to rely on enthusiasts and chance discoveries to recover lost history.When “historical oblivion is the default, not the exception,” what survives is often what individuals decide to save, not what institutions guarantee.
(DIR) Post #B6wFy4k7nErd8O3dNg by internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org
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3/3 Today, games, magazines, and digital works can disappear overnight, taking decades of creative history with them.Mechner argues that archivists, libraries, and preservation networks are essential to keeping cultural memory alive.Read Mechner's essay and much more in VANISHING CULTURE.📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/🛒 Purchase in print: https://betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new#VanishingCulture #InternetArchive #GameHistory #DigitalPreservation @jmechner
(DIR) Post #B6zu4mW8HLJaF1whd2 by Axomamma@mastodon.online
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@internetarchive You know what's going to really make major archives vanish? The loss of the electric grid. Not likely to happen any time soon but ...
(DIR) Post #B6zu5c8WMNKEKrIa2q by libreovergratis@mastodon.social
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@internetarchive @jmechner This is why I have a RAID5 volume full of all of my favorite games from GOG and any game I manage to find hiding among the CD/DVD section of the thrift store.