Hello fellow lainons,
seeing a similar thread on 4chan's /g/ I decided to start one here.
Just think for a moment. We use a somewhat decentralised network filled to brink with data... daily. Most of it is trash or another content that bears no significance to us. If you know the right way, though, you can siphon through it and hit a cluster of something very interesting (like The Do/k/ument or The Gentooman's Library). Imageboards are a specific place, because unlike another websites they have their unique, yet volatile and prone to change culture.
I'm a sick hoarder myself. Yes, sick, because it is a sickness indeed. I sometimes think of all that data that will be lost sometime and I won't be able to see it again. Everything changes. I'm poor though, so I can't afford a 5TB cluster to archive all music I like, some older games, chinese cartoons, valuable chunks of data (textfiles, whole book libraries, websites that can be taken down one day /remember Geocities?/ etc.), internet culture, old websites (as you can see, all of them start to look the same:
http://www.novolume.co.uk/blog/all-websites-look-the-same) and other valuable content.
So... tell me about your hoarding. Do you hoard data? If you do, how and what do you keep?
