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.
Been going down the lost media rabbit hole recently and hearing folks recollection of things - sometimes being able to perfectly describe something they haven't seen in 20-30+ years... just damn. wow. It's nuts how good the brain can do that.
I feel like I could blabber on hours about this, in all sorts of directions, but I am having difficulties doing so in a way that makes any sense so I'm just gonna stop for now lol.
I think we're going to get dumber again - as the Internet has been an extremely useful clutch for millions and that it's only as useful as having that content still available. Can't fit all the answers in your brain? Great, remember a few keywords and Google will spit it all back out for ya.
But as time rolls on and as old content gets lost and missing... our ability to recall is going to diminish.
Also not looking forward to AI confidently telling everyone made-up lies. yeah we're kinda boned.
@colinstu I am deeply grateful that archive.org exists for just this reason, and even then there are things I remember from the early- and pre- web days that are gone now.
Without archive.org we wouldn't have this any more:
archive.org/details/foghorn-v4…
While I can find en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_C… I don't see a record of the BCS Mac group, which was quite active in its day.
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