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Chen began scraping the dregs of the Archive’s own crawls—sites that had fewer than ten inbound links, pages with no metadata, directories last modified before Google existed. He called it Days of Being Wild because “these pages weren’t businesses. They were moods. They were a Tuesday night in 1998 when a lonely person had too much caffeine and too much to say.” Days of Being Wild Internet Archive, Wong Kar-wai

One of the most famous stories from the film is Yuddy (Leslie Cheung) telling Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) that because they spent the minute before 3 PM on April 16, 1960 together, she would always remember him. He called it Days of Being Wild because

Below it, a broken counter reads: “Visitors: 0.”

She closed the terminal. The cursor vanished. The hum of the server farm died to a whisper.

The “Days of Being Wild” archive is its feral younger sibling. Named in homage to Wong Kar-wai’s 1990 film about restless, doomed youth, this unofficial (and now semi-official) movement focuses on what most archivists ignore: the personal, the broken, the embarrassing.