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Old forum mods kept telling me my dead fansite was junk, but a librarian in Ohio proved them wrong
Back in 2009 I ran a little fansite for a local band from Akron, maybe 40 visitors a month, and the mods on a webmaster board told me to just delete it since dead sites are clutter. I almost did, but a librarian in Columbus emailed me saying she used my old tour date list to help a student with a history project. Now I leave every dead page up exactly as it was, broken guestbook and all. Turns out an abandoned site is still a record of something, even if nobody signs the guestbook anymore. How many of you keep old sites up just for that one stranger who still needs them?
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kellymurphy17h ago
That librarian in Columbus basically did what archivists do with paper records. A band's whole history can live on a GeoCities page with a hit counter stuck at 1,847 and a guestbook last signed in 2011. I dug up a defunct message board for a Toledo venue a while back, and someone had posted the full setlist from a 2006 show that never made it to any database. That one post was worth more than the ten active forums I checked first. Dead pages are like attic boxes. You don't toss them just because nobody's opened them lately.
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