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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/HiOscillation on 2025-01-26 16:10:07+00:00.

I’ve lurked & learned a LONG time in this sub, and TBH, I thought a lot of you were a little…over the top (and I say that with kindness).

I’m good at maintaining a data pile, it’s all fairly routine for me. I’ve never lost a personal file since a disaster in 2003 which eradicated, to a level I didn’t think possible, photos of the birth of one of my kids. That’s what got me into data hoarding. Since then, my data hoarding has been more about safely managing and maintaining genuinely irreplaceable digital media - the stuff we have created over the years - as the underlying physical formats change.

I was less concerned with commercial media; I have subscriptions to various news sites with archives, and have always enjoyed funny/sarcastic content. Way, way, way back in 2001, The Onion had a moderately funny article about Starbucks - and the thing I remembered most was the absolutely perfect re-design of the Starbucks logo, with the mermaid now having a cyclops eye and looking pretty mean. You can just barely see the redesigned logo in this image. The redesigned logo featured prominently in the original article, and I liked it so much I printed it out. Well, I lost that printout years ago, and a few years ago, the article was scrubbed of the redesigned logo for some reason, who knows how many years ago. Archive.org does not have it either.

And that’s when I started collecting all of the articles I read online in my own collection. Because the past is erasable now.