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Warner Bros. Scrubs Cartoon Network Website, Erasing Years of History

by clwg on 8/10/24, 9:54 AM with 28 comments

• by Bluestein on 8/10/24, 10:48 AM

  Impermanence is a problem. The main information substrate of society is based on media that - unlike books or print - needs sustained economic investments after creation just for it's continued existence, a problem often made worse by a single publisher point of failure.-

  Until we "fix" this, or find a permanence solution, entire swathes of culture will keep vanishing wholesale, until nothing remains on record from our age - a dark age, or gap - when seen from the future, looking back. Hindsight will only find a void - AIs, perhaps, our only remaining collective memory from this age up to an age where information permanence is widespread and solved.-

• by alephnerd on 8/10/24, 8:45 PM

  Rip my childhood of CN's flash games (I never solved thr scooby doo rpg with the underwater pyramid). I wonder if that flash Cyberchase RPG on PBS Kids is still online...

• by eleveriven on 8/10/24, 7:33 PM

  Why... just why? It might help the studio save money in the short term, but they risk undermining its long-term brand

• by rockemsockem on 8/10/24, 7:41 PM

  Most of it is fortunately preserved on the hard drives of many pirates

• by brunoarueira on 8/10/24, 2:20 PM

  It's a pitty! On the other hand If someone scraps the website to preserve as history, they'll go after and will apply a DMCA takedown.