In an age of algorithmic feeds and walled gardens, where everything is personalized and sanitized, the Archive remains gloriously, chaotically complete . It does not judge your sausage. It just saves it.
On a 1942 recipe film for “Victory Sausage” (made with breadcrumbs and desperation), the comments range from a genuine great-granddaughter of the film’s narrator to a flame war about whether plant-based sausages are “real sausages.” That argument has been ongoing since 2014. 847 comments and counting. internet archive sausage party
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That’s the sausage party : the glorious, awkward, algorithmically bizarre juxtaposition of high and low, sacred and profane, educational and deeply, deeply odd. Let’s start with the literal. Search “sausage” on the Internet Archive. Go ahead. I’ll wait. On a 1942 recipe film for “Victory Sausage”
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Why keep this? Because, as Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle once said, “We don’t know what will be important in 100 years.” And in 2124, some digital historian will need to understand how late 20th-century children learned math via processed meat. The phrase “sausage party” also evokes the old adage: “Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.” Attributed to Bismarck, though probably apocryphal. The same applies to digital archives.
On a 1998 Geocities page preserved inside the Archive titled “Sausage Links (not that kind),” the comments are empty except for one from 2017: “I made this page when I was 14. I am now 33. Please delete it.” The Archive does not delete. You might laugh. You might cringe. But the sausage party is the point.
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