175. Archive Fever - Ruby Justice Thelot *Unlocked*

The internet is tedious, impersonal, rarely goes anywhere. Cyber-ethnographer/professor Ruby Justice Thelot comes on to talk about Checkpoints--a new book which charts the 10 + year history of an extended forum beneath a Youtube video loop of the Donkey Kong Country 2 soundtrack full of personal stories of tragedy, triumph, and major life events that one day vanished without a trace. A history of digital and physical libraries, the shock of deletion, the age of recuperation, file corruption, non-online human digital media, and more.