[toomuchtodo]

Hey there, I do some work with the Archive folks as an ad hoc physical archive volunteer. I'll pay for you to ship them and facilitate getting them ingested into items and a collection if you'd like. Let me know how to get in touch.

Once scanned, derive operations will take care of OCR and generating relevant metadata from the artifacts. If there are any issues (copyright, etc) preventing these items from being public, they'll be made private by patron services.

(no affiliation with the Archive, just a volunteer)

[toomuchtodo]

Jason/textfiles said they’d take them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38882079

[stevengoodwin]

Given I'm UK-based, postage might be a bit steep. Let me see how much stuff _isn't_ still out there.

FWIW, on most other systems I'm contactable via @marquisdegeek

[skymast]

Do you take MYSQL backups of complete BBS sites?

[toomuchtodo]

https://help.archive.org/help/how-to-upload-files-to-create-...

https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive might be helpful

If you have an artifact in digital format already, you can self serve and don't need my help. Patron services at the org can provide guidance if you are unsure of item value, upload mechanics, collections, metadata, etc.

[93po]

I ran a website where people uploaded game save files along with an screenshot of their game world for a few years. It had maybe 10k+ submissions and was a mildly popular game. I took it offline years ago though. Is this something worth archiving?

[giancarlostoro]

Random on-disk game saves is how some MMO server projects have been revived by communities. It could also help someone re-implement the game engine having various copies of a game save. You would be surprised how useful archiving game files can be for someone who really wants to re-build a legacy game.

[JaimeThompson]

We don't really know what the future might find interesting so saving as much as possible seems like a good thing to do.

[KomoD]

Sure, why not, could be interesting

[toomuchtodo]

Yes, please consider doing so.

[grayhatter]

100% yes!