thats praxis baby!!!!!!!Internet culture as such a weird combination of "everything is flawlessly recorded forever" and "you just had to be there". Everything is simultaneously permanent and ephemeral. We're drowning in records that have no context, and context that has no records
Alonealastalovedalongthe@DayGloChainsaw Except that the permanence is an illusion, we want to believe the fantasy that the digital world is immortal because it helps us run from our own mortality. Every blog ends with an epitaph that reads something like "I am a little too busy right now to write, but I hope to get back soon!" and then eventually it goes down. Sure we have the internet archive, but we also only have the internet archive.
Cybre Rick@Alonealastalovedalongthe
There was a chain of posts in reddit about a topic, something about Disney and corporate overlords. Suddenly everyone in /r/cyberpunk began posting cool futuristic logos of companies. Those posts were beautiful.
One year later you can't find them. They're practically lost. You can find them if you search carefully, but the events, as they unfolded, can't be retrieved.
The ephemeral internet is such an awful thing.