On March 9, Gigaom abruptly laid off its entire staff, including me. It's heartbreaking to lose a job like that, but support networks have a way of making you feel certain new opportunities are on the way. What's not certain is the past. During my two years at Gigaom, I wrote close to 1,000 articles. My senior colleagues have five times more in their archives. We have no idea if or when Gigaom.com will be taken down. It's as if years of our lives could disappear in an instant. There are support networks for this kind of situation as well. The Internet Archive, for example, has been grabbing Gigaom's web pages as fast as it can, according to archivist and software curator Jason Scott. I had the chance to sit in on Scott's SXSW panel and felt the worry lift from my shoulders just the slightest bit. Remembering The Internet—All Of It Most of us know the Internet Archive from the Wayback Machine, which allows you to drop in and browse a website at any point in its history. Here's Gigaom... - Web2024