That was my first thought. A lot of people in the last several years have learned the hard way that for all practical purposes, the Internet tends to be forever.
Sure, you may not be able to find that really useful utility you once used to parse regular expressions because the author stopped maintaining it, took the web site down and never released the source code[0], but that one time you[1] drank too much and tweeted something embarrassing will be discoverable on Google next to your name for decades after you die.
[0] That's been a bugger of mine for a while -- if anyone knows where Rad Regular Expression Designer went, I'll e-mail you a soda.
[1] Or when someone who shares your name and got arrested for theft (thank God he lives in a part of the country I have never visited).
Sure, you may not be able to find that really useful utility you once used to parse regular expressions because the author stopped maintaining it, took the web site down and never released the source code[0], but that one time you[1] drank too much and tweeted something embarrassing will be discoverable on Google next to your name for decades after you die.
[0] That's been a bugger of mine for a while -- if anyone knows where Rad Regular Expression Designer went, I'll e-mail you a soda.
[1] Or when someone who shares your name and got arrested for theft (thank God he lives in a part of the country I have never visited).