Weak.
I will form a trust and put enough money in it to pay Linode bills and maintain the archive for as long as Internet exists.
I’ll also make sure we have backups at archive.org, and maybe even some libraries that will accept our material.
I’ll even send a hard drive into space if we have to.
I love the idea that some alien civilization studying humanity would find Scott’s hard drive of Forum stuff and the things they would extrapolate about 21st century humans from it.
If you want to podcast in 2020 - One of these, a couple mics, and a computer should be all you ever need
Interesting!
Size isn’t equal to runtime, though. Bitrates and such have changed over the years. Would love to see the same visualization for runtime.
A stat, if you’re interested, is that the entire GeekNights archive (which includes uncompressed and lossless-compressed master files in addition to the mp3s, plus some supporting assets), consists as of the end of 2020 of:
3,041 files
598GB
Total time is over 78,000 minutes.
The shortest non-special is 2006-02-21, “Short Episode” at 14 minutes. This is before Rym realized he could delete whole episodes, he only cut out three-quarters or so.
The shortest normal episode is 2015-06-16 “Ore Monogatari!!”, 26 minutes.
The longest GeekNights is 2009-07-29, “Otakon 2009”, at just shy of 2 hours.
The median episode is 55 minutes.
There are 3,030 TotD’s, from 931 domains. Across the entire set, there is not a single repeat Thing.
All data current as of June 10, 2022.
2012-2019: The YouTube years.
How many dead links?
I’m assuming nearly 100% =(
I did a sampling recently for an unrelated project and 100% of the links I found that weren’t to youtube were dead.
598 out of 3030 (19%) TotDs are dead links. Measured by whether they return a response in the 400-500 range or timeout.
This is a lower bound on link rot:
200 for all videos, even deleted or private ones
@Apreche should make the Internet Archive save all the news/TotD links for a show.
Hey, @TheListener, mad props on all this data analysis! This kind of data and charting is totally my jam! 
I put it on the list! New web site is moving along. Working on it for the third straight day.
TotD titles at a glance:
Last year seen, domains with 3+ Things:
2006 news.yahoo.com
2007 somethingawful.com
flicklife.com
digg.com
forums.fark.com
metacafe.com
2008 adultswim.com
abcnews.go.com
break.com
neatorama.com
dailymotion.com
2009 video.google.com
kongregate.com
2010 npr.org
wired.com
improveverywhere.com
englishrussia.com
2011 nytimes.com
newgrounds.com
cinemassacre.com
slate.com
gonintendo.com
2012 frontrowcrew.com
boston.com
ted.com
joystiq.com
2013 crunchyroll.com
2014 collegehumor.com
2015 io9.gizmodo.com
2016 gothamist.com
fark.com
arstechnica.com
2017 kotaku.com
vimeo.com
flickr.com
amazon.com
warisboring.com
engadget.com
2018 imgur.com
gizmodo.com
2020 jalopnik.com
animenewsnetwork.com
en.wikipedia.org
rockpapershotgun.com
boardgamegeek.com
2021 hackaday.com
google.com
theverge.com
github.com
boingboing.net
kickstarter.com
2022 youtube.com
instagram.com
twitter.com
reddit.com
The Listener thanks you for joining TotD week.
2007 was the last year of The Old Internet I think.
Yes. iPhone and Twitter were the dividing line.
Parts of it continued until 2014. We had some College Humor links then. Also lol cinemassacre.