Ask HN: What to do with text from old, unarchived, online forums?

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2 years ago

I have a stack of printouts of various discussion forums from between 1991-4. Mostly chatter, but several interview transcriptions, news reports, and magazine articles that no longer appear to be online.

They vary from Billboard charts, to Associated Press reports on Michael Jackson's wealth, and Debbie Gibson discussion groups!

Are they useful/interesting as pieces of Internet history?

Are the copyright/privacy issues too onerous to scan/publish?

Do I simply send a box of paper to archive.org to worry about?

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