• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

A truly dystopian thing happened today

MalO

Elite
Ever read about those sci-fi stories where Big Brother is able to control all forms of media and banish any knowledge from human history that it doesn't like?

Well that just happened. For real.


Less than 24 hours ago the Internet Archive aka "The Wayback Machine" which maintains the long history of the internet and lets you look up webpages that existed 20+ years ago back in the dotcom era, was just hacked.

The hackers stole passwords from the wayback machine, and are currently carrying out a DDOS attack on the Internet Archive. While the MSM is currently reporting no known attempt at editing or deleting information stored in the machine, I personally believe that is likely the intent behind the attack.

There is an ongoing election and both sides are conducting an information war. There was likely something posted in the Internet's past that someone wanted removed from the archive.

Welcome to your new existence, where big brother can edit any information you have access to at all times. Big brother can only speak the truth, because all evidence of lies will be deleted, and anyone who speaks the truth will be silenced.
 
There was a movie with Willie Nelson in it and the only part I can remember was he was writing and recording a song reshaping an event that didn't happen but they would have a record of it happening. Pretty sure that was the premise of the movie.
 
There was a movie with Willie Nelson in it and the only part I can remember was he was writing and recording a song reshaping an event that didn't happen but they would have a record of it happening. Pretty sure that was the premise of the movie.
@MalO thanks for getting @TopHook to answer the question. Do tell the interweb
But seriously wtf. I rode the short bus w window tint and bike helmets
 

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