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Naming the site was a big struggle sesh. Lots of good names are taken, weren't the right vibe, etc. We sort of made the joke "404 Media Company Not Found" to ou
by jkoebler 3y ago
Naming the site was a big struggle sesh. Lots of good names are taken, weren't the right vibe, etc. We sort of made the joke "404 Media Company Not Found" to ourselves but, I think to be honest we:
1) Like how it sounds
2) People get it right away, even folks I know who don't care a lot about tech journalism or aren't super internet savvy (maybe they are even more likely to find themselves on 404 pages!)
3) This is a little pretentious and not the actual reason we chose it (i.e. we realized it later), but we really do want to tell stories from "hidden" parts of the internet / tech and the undercovered parts of it. 404 pages are full of easter eggs, and maybe it's just something about accidentally stumbling onto a community or wold you didn't previously know existed.
- kornhole 3y ago404 has become a sign of censorship as we are seeing more pages taken down from Internet Archive and other places. I am excited to see you continue on surveillance and perhaps broaden into censorship and propaganda now that you are freed from some of the forces behind it.
- xkcd-sucks 3y agoIs there a Russian Internet Archive that doesn't comply with American takedown notices by any chance?
- kornhole 3y agoI am not sure about Russian hosted, but an alternative to archive.org is archive.is. Centralized services eventually get compelled or corrupted. I setup https://archivebox.io/ https://archivebox.io/ on my server. Some other options have been reported here.
- mewse-hn 3y agoI guess it is also in the tradition of 2600 magazine to use a numeric code as your nameplate
- SSLy 3y agoThere's something with your lazy img loader. Even if I disable uBo and FF's built-in protection, they don't come up.