I've got boxes of zines from the pre-internet days, and i'm too much of a packrat to part with them, even though i've long since moved on from those fandoms.
When i still had dial-up, i used to save everything down, because trying to read long epic stories online would cost you an arm and a leg. These days i pretty much save everything to delicious, though i've still got a couple of thousand stories and links on my computer that i haven't gotten around to tagging yet.
I picked save forever because i learned the hard way not to go around deleting stuff. Last time i got a new pc, i deleted a bunch of old fics on the grounds that i wasn't interested in those fandoms anymore, but then someone gave me the Highlander DVDs and i came down with a sudden urge to re-read all my old Richie/Methos favourites. But most of them had disappeared into the ether, and despite spending days on the wayback machine there were a few i just couldn't find. So now it's a case of keep everything, because i never know when an old fandom will come calling.
here via metafandom
When i still had dial-up, i used to save everything down, because trying to read long epic stories online would cost you an arm and a leg. These days i pretty much save everything to delicious, though i've still got a couple of thousand stories and links on my computer that i haven't gotten around to tagging yet.
I picked save forever because i learned the hard way not to go around deleting stuff. Last time i got a new pc, i deleted a bunch of old fics on the grounds that i wasn't interested in those fandoms anymore, but then someone gave me the Highlander DVDs and i came down with a sudden urge to re-read all my old Richie/Methos favourites. But most of them had disappeared into the ether, and despite spending days on the wayback machine there were a few i just couldn't find. So now it's a case of keep everything, because i never know when an old fandom will come calling.