Textamerica is gone!
This is the worst news ever and I can’t believe I just found out about it. A long time ago (like 6 years) before I started this blog I used to MoBlog. Basically I used to take pictures with my PDA, a Sony Clie UX-50 back then and upload them onto this site called TextAmerica. I had hundreds of pictures there ranging from my random lunches to interesting places around Kuwait. I actually preferred the pictures I had taken for my TextAmerica blog more than the ones I did later for my Miskan.com project because I felt they were more natural and random.
Just a few moments ago I went to my old Moblog usurp.textamerica.com and realized the whole site is gone. Turns out TextAmerica shutdown in December and I just found out now so i wasn’t able to back up my images and posts! This is depressing, soo many memories and moments which I had captured are now all gone.
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11 Comments, add your own...
1. ar53nal14 | June 25th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
JUST SUE THEM! They didn’t even send you an e-mail? Ask them! I’m sure they didn’t delete everything!
2. Monotheist | June 25th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Bummer, but be sure to contact them before you throw in the towel.
3. Jim Sefton | June 25th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Try this:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070823011050/http://usurp.textamerica.com/
Most seem to still be there, but grab them quick
4. Jim Sefton | June 25th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Sorry, should’ve checked further… thumbnails seem to be there but not the large versions
5. nibaq | June 25th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
bwhahaha told you textamerica.com sucked and in their terms of service they owned all your pictures.
My phlog.net that I started before you is still up and active! I told you that they were better, but you had to go with textamerica.com
http://phlog.net/user/plus965
Remember him:
http://phlog.net/entry/34422&page=20
6. hohoo | June 25th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
you are into photography and you can’t backup you photos locally!!
7. suspic | June 25th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
You will make new memories, young Mark.
8. TanGo | June 25th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Same thing happened with Yahoo! Photos last September
but they have given at least 3 reminders over a 4-month period!
9. Moey | June 26th, 2008 at 4:53 am
:S thats sad!
10. SJM | June 26th, 2008 at 11:44 am
I totally feel you.. I write an article every Saturday for a local newspaper, one day I wrote 3 beautiful articles I poured all my thoughts and insights, was really happy I had created such nice pieces. Suddenly my computer crashed and my hard drive just died. I felt soooo sad and violated especially with the fact that I didn’t back them up. My sadness led to writer block for more than 2 weeks. Couldn’t write anything good!! Its weird how we feel like somebody had stole my soul.
11. Darth Vader | July 2nd, 2008 at 5:50 am
LOL@”JUST SUE THEM! They didn’t even send you an e-mail? Ask them! I’m sure they didn’t delete everything!”
uhhh…..YES THEY DID! DELETED! GONE! BYE BYE! cuz the owners are now in jail for espionage and drug smuggling from England…..they would take their dogs overseas, and insert cocaine into their rectums and then bring them back clearing customs…..but they didnt make it one time when the dog took a dump at the customs counter and pooped out the sack of drugs….
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