"I've been working on some stuff. Researching. Hitting the archives. Looking for lost media. The digital world is an interesting place. The saying was, at one point, "the internet is forever" but now we know linkrot is a plague for the internet as websites shut down. Having a link to a site that doesn't exist anymore is, aside from a few things like the Wayback Machine, useless."
"We're past the 20th anniversary of the 2004 World Series, but one of the moments I will always remember was from a game on June 13th. The Dodgers were in town. Dave Roberts (still a Dodger, remember) is at the plate. He hits a line drive. Surely extra bases. But no! Pokey Reese leaps into the air to snag the ball out of the sky. It was an amazing catch. Go look for it. I'll wait. ESPN had a game write-up that is now blank."
"I clipped the frames from the grainy video myself. Apologies for the poor quality of a game someone surely taped and uploaded to a corner of the internet. And now we have a highlight. And that was good. I was happy. But there was something more. Something else. Something commemorative for this year. "It's like a baby New York" maybe? Already uploaded. Although this too was lost media for a while."
The internet suffers from linkrot as websites shut down, rendering many links useless aside from archives like the Wayback Machine. A 2004 baseball moment—Pokey Reese's leaping catch of a Dave Roberts line drive on June 13—was absent from major outlets but was recovered through archival searching and frame-clipping of a grainy fan-uploaded video. Recovering old commercials and other lost media often requires contacting sources, persistent searching, and checking alternative hosting. Digital preservation relies on proactive recovery, community contributions, central archiving of privately uploaded footage, and archiving tools to keep cultural moments accessible.
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