{"product_id":"a-cyberarchaeology-of-checkpoints-ruby-thelot","title":"A Cyberarchaeology of Checkpoints – Ruby Thelot","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCheckpoint: My newborn son means everything to me, even if sometimes he’s a little shit and I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in months.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThis book is an homage to the innumerable efforts at staving off the ineluctable demise of all digital memories. Specifically, this book focused on Checkpoints, an emergent behavior which occurred in the comment section of a YouTube video from 2012 to 2021. There, the users, when algorithmically recommend the video, would write a “checkpoint,” a personal life update.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThis book contains a curated collection of 99 Checkpoints, along with two essays and an interview with Rebane2001, the user who archived the video before its unfortunate deletion by YouTube.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eRemember: memory is a radical act.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Irrelevant Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54203340325148,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/3700\/9436\/files\/Screenshot2026-06-13at4.47.00PM.png?v=1781395416","url":"https:\/\/ojala.la\/products\/a-cyberarchaeology-of-checkpoints-ruby-thelot","provider":"Ojalá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}