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3 days agoUnearthing a lost Red Sox classic
Linkrot has made many online resources inaccessible, making preservation efforts and archive searches necessary to recover lost digital media.
We're living in a time of unprecedented media availability. If you have a hankering to watch an episode of The Love Boat that aired in 1979, you don't have to wait for a rerun; you just need to pull up Paramount+. But widespread availability also highlights what isn't available at the touch of a button, and the especially obscure stuff has been dubbed "lost media."
An original but unused ending cutscene for Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro, released in 2001, was long thought to be lost to time, with only a single screenshot of it remaining online. But that all changed earlier this week when someone who downloaded the original ending over 20 years ago remembered they had it and uploaded it to the internet. First, a bit of history: