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We are getting a little worried about attacks on the Internet Archive

The newest one.. More attacks on the Internet Archive..   The legal issues will continue.. the lawsuits will eventually result with a conclusion.  But if the Internet Archive dies, everything that mattered online will go with it.  All we have now are AIs and BOTs controlling it all, nothing seem real.  The Archive gives us a sense of when real people made things online, had voices.. opinions..  When people mattered. Not the machine.  Let’s just hope this does not end with an injunction against the site that kills it and all that is gives us..

I WANT MY MTV: 40 YEARS LATER

MTV WENT LIVE ON AUGUST 1, 1981, EXACTLY 40 YEARS AGO TODAY.. as the joke goes. Music television gave us 14 years of music in the past 40.. Let it be known forever that the first song ever played on MTV was VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR. And since then, everything--INCLUDING MTV--killed the Video Star! History.  40 years to the date.. Here is some cool video of the first two hours of what the network offered this day in history: