2023-08-21 18:45:59
“Skyblog”. The word immediately arouses a certain nostalgia in those who were 15 years old in the 2000s. An ancestor of social networks, the platform created in 2002 by Skyrock radio allowed everyone to open their own blog, a kind of online diary, to share photos of their friends, pour out their passions or even write fiction. All this in an absolutely kitsch decor: glittery backgrounds, multicolored texts with heterogeneous fonts, animated images… and the essential “SMS writing”, as evidenced by the site’s mythical slogan: “ici T libre”.
The golden age of blogging
Easy to use, the platform met with dazzling success, so much so that in 2005 a third of French people aged 13 to 24 had a Skyblog. In 2007, it even became the 17th most visited site in the world. But from the 2010s, the rise of other social networks like Facebook slowed its progress. Until last June when, invoking the need to comply with the legislation on personal data, Pierre Bellanger, founder and president of the Skyrock group, announced its closure.
In his press release (published, of course, on the Skyrock team blog), he announces that Skyblogs will however “to go down in history. This sociological treasure will be anonymized and will go to the national archives so that, tomorrow, scholars and researchers can realize with unimaginable granularity what the new generation was like at the beginning of the 21st century. »
“This memory will not be lost”
Last spring, Pierre Bellanger approached the National Library of France (BNF) and the National Audiovisual Institute (INA), which have the task of recording certain Internet archives, since a revision of the Heritage Code of 2006. In 2009, the INA had also decided to archive certain Skyblogs, compiling more than a hundred dedicated to the series More beautiful life. Finally, on the 19 million blogs still in existencenearly 15 million will be saved.
#Skyrock has just announced the going offline of its famous network of blogs. This memory will not be lost! The team #skyblog contacted us and we saved 1,636,945 #skyblogs ???? @Inatheque1@Ina_audiovisual@SkyrockFM#webarchivinghttps://t.co/DF4UIS9NtX
— Ina Web Legal Deposit (@inadlweb) June 23, 2023
That Internet users do not worry about seeing the mistakes of their adolescence reappear. Private messaging and blogs will not be collected and the archives will only be accessible to accredited researchers. On the other hand, contrary to what Skyrock suggested, the content will not be anonymized, in the name of an exception to the law on personal data (RGPD) which promotes scientific research.
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