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For me, ________ is basically all sports games that have ever been broadcast. Most of them are just locked away somewhere, with literally no legal way for anyone to see them.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Drivers and software packages for older hardware. I know we can't expect any company to support old stuff forever, but they incessantly purge driver downloads to "save hosting costs" and it makes a lot of retro but usable hardware paperweights. And since their "private intellectual property" they never post it to any kind of open source site, regardless of how old...

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

This is why the Internet Archive is so incredibly important. If anyone is going to donate money to any causes, put that shit HIGH UP ON THE PRIORITY LIST.

https://archive.org/donate