Sure, but by this era I meant since the early days of the internet (like the old BBS days prior to the WWW and American Online… There are probably communities that have worked to preserve their communications, but even before the current era of social media, we were starting to let all this information be saved primarily by corporations, and they, generally speaking, do a shit job at archiving… People started to see communication as “cheap” and were less likely to consider the importance of preservation with the rise of the computer revolution.
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