Meta discussion for all the folks who have been here forever. Do you have any old messages or threads that you've saved, either to refer back to in the future or as a personal favourite or for some other reason? If we were going to collectively work on a project to pick out the best of the best posts and conversations from the history of FoC, where would you start?

I'm disorganized and have really bad memory so I build tools to look back 😄 The last two is a ranking of links with fetched titles and search: http://search.futureofcoding.org/history/links/ and a script that dumps the whole history into a sqlite database. My next one will probably be a list of words, names and concepts (suggestions welcome) and a script that generates an index of conversations where that's mentioned, kind of what tools of thought people do manually with [[double brackets]] but automated for lazy people like me 🙂 A curated list of talks, books, papers, people and artifacts and their respective conversations here would be a good one too

I wish C2 wiki was still alive – even 20 years later, all the conversations would live naturally there, under an UmbrellaTerm, would continue, would build on each other

Probably long threads (by character count, or time between first and last messages) would be my guess as the best heuristic

When I see text (not a link*) that I'm likely to want to refer back to, I email it to myself. 🐺 (* The links just collect dust on my desktop. Way more interesting stuff going on than I can sort through let alone keep track of.)

I have a bunch of bookmarks from this group I can share, though they're mostly from threads I was active in.

Please do.