[dredmorbius]

The lifetime of Internet content is best described as nondeterminable. Some of it lives ... for a long time. Some of it vanishes quickly. Much of it persists until it doesn't, whether through the fluke of some small-scale calamity or a wide-ranging service shutdown. Or because the original author, or current hoster, simply feels it no longer warrants being online.

Personal blogs, and personal personal blogs, are particularly prone to this. I've been online long enough (going into my fourth decade) that I've seen many people who were at one time quite prolific and free-ranging online ... stop being so. Some died. Some had life catch up with them. Some merely tired of the attention. Some found their interests wandering elsewhere.

Archival has value, and I'm a fan of it.

But so do privacy, and peace and quiet.