I am of the age where skate magazines were uber important to me - I still have a stack that reaches my waist from the floor. And I have often wondered the same thing you illuminated in this piece: if one glitch occurs, what happens to all that skate history that does not exist as a tangible object? Maybe that makes me an old timer, but it also makes me concerned for a generation of skateboarding history.
As far as I’m concerned look back library is doing the lords work.
It's unnerving to think of so much culture casually washing away. Forgivable human error and unforgivable corporate fuckery work in tandem on that one. I should perhaps be less stingy with the Internet Archive's rattling tin cup this year.
Great piece Cole.
I am of the age where skate magazines were uber important to me - I still have a stack that reaches my waist from the floor. And I have often wondered the same thing you illuminated in this piece: if one glitch occurs, what happens to all that skate history that does not exist as a tangible object? Maybe that makes me an old timer, but it also makes me concerned for a generation of skateboarding history.
As far as I’m concerned look back library is doing the lords work.
Thanks Cole.
Thanks as always for reading and the kind words, Michael!
Totally. Blessings be upon Marks.
It's unnerving to think of so much culture casually washing away. Forgivable human error and unforgivable corporate fuckery work in tandem on that one. I should perhaps be less stingy with the Internet Archive's rattling tin cup this year.
100%. And that's a good call. Shoutout to all the nonprofits straining to hold the internet's memory together.