Before Vine was gone for good, volunteer internet archivists preserved many of its videos for posterity and Divine used this archive to restore some of the internet’s favorites.
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Clare Duffy,
CNN Money,
23 Aug. 2026
Before archivists can preserve a record, the record must survive long enough to make it into their hands.
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Steven Melendez,
Scientific American,
2 July 2026
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