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Colin May 9, 2023

It's kinda funny how ubiquitous the phrase "the Internet never forgets" is, yet just how seemingly wrong it's becoming as time goes on.
The WWW gets older and if pages weren’t archived and server goes down / content changes / service enshittifies—yes the Internet DOES INDEED forget. Stop taking it for granted!

It also reminds me just how ephemeral recorded-content really is.

Humankind would be back at square one had we only relied on our own memories + speaking (no recording) and nothing else.

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Darkscribe · Hex ΘΔ&

@colinstu I made a ton of really terrible websites back in the day (2007-ish) using this free hoster called repage.de. I never archived any of them (unfortunately) and when it went down a few years ago, all of those websites disappeared, too. Just a few days ago I wondered if maybe the Wayback Machine archived them somehow, but it didn't. I have a few other websites that I DID backup (fortunately), but they relied on some central CDN so the design's completely broken now.