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I know this is going to be a bit ironic, considering the permanence of the internet I continually preach (nothing ever really disappears per-se), but the internet does have a habit of forgetting.Websites disappear without warning, download links expire, and projects that once seemed to be a part of the landscape slowly become harder to find. It's an inevitable part of the internet itself, but for much older gaming system communities it creates a different problem. Games can be archived, consoles can be repaired, but the knowledge surrounding them is often far more fragile. The Sony PSP has experienced that first-hand, many times over.More than twenty years after Sony introduced its first handheld, the console remains remarkably active. New homebrew continues to appear, modern custom firmware and programs are easier to install than ever (with varying degrees of success, now that A.I. is making everyone a 'developer'), and communities are still finding ways to push the hardware beyond…

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