So far, besides making it a pain in the ass to talk with friends while playing Splatoon 2 online, Nintendo hasn’t done much with online features on Switch. I’d hoped the company would refresh one of its most overlooked innovations on Wii U, the absurdist but lovable social network known as Miiverse, but instead, Nintendo shut down Miiverse on November 8. And though Miiverse is dead, its history (and the many strange, curious drawings) live on, thanks to a software developer who goes by Drastic Actions online. They’ve archived the Miiverse, and we are all better for it.Archiverse contains roughly 17 terabytes (!!) of data grabbed by a group called Archive Team, an organization committed to backing up Internet curiosities and a guide for people who want to keep track of their own data. (You can help them in that mission.)That 17 terabytes of data translates, according to Drastic Actions:
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- 216,901,986 Replies
- 133,003,599 Posts
- 75,955,135 Screenshots
- 72,135,190 Drawings
- 8,278,693 User Profiles