I did this silly project a while ago. I made some physical tapes of various muxtape mixes. And, as is the way of these things, quite a few people never got in touch so I could send them their tape. (Or I forgot, which is more likely). So when I was reading this sad, thoughtful, intelligent piece about the death of muxtape (by its creator) I was staring at these physical incarnations of it. A pile of muxtapes.
It occurred to us later on on Friday that more of the internet could benefit from being preserved in this way. Wikipedia should be kept in a ring-binder, flickr should be in a shoe-box. Just in case. Haha. You know. Funny.
But I've not been able to get this idea out of my head. Maybe it's because I've been going through a bunch of stuff from storage recently but I like the idea of bumping into old physicalised bits of the internet in ten years, behind a sofa. Not a determined, rigourous, purposeful archive, but a haphazard collection accidental bits that you come across while living a life. Like collecting the bus tickets of the web. So I've got a ring-binder, I've written 'wikipedia' on it. I've stuck a print out of this in there. And I'm putting it in my internet cupboard. You wait, you'll all be coming round for a look at it soon.
(Incidentally, if you'd like your muxtape now, now it's a priceless historical artefact please drop me an email.)