[brokenkebaby]

I recently tried to search for my own web presence from late 90s early 00s, and I found the famous claim that nothing dsappears from the internet to be greatly exaggerated. A few snapshots made its way to web archive, but incomplete, and not very useful for any purpose. But to be fair I lost a big chunk of my own paper archive as well for various reasons.

[_xivi]

I always understood that saying more like: "you can't put the genie back in the bottle"

Once you share something online, there's a big chance someone is keeping a copy, it might not be accessible on the internet anymore, but it's never lost

[toast0]

> I found the famous claim that nothing dsappears from the internet to be greatly exaggerated.

It is exaggerated, but many cautions are. Some things you post on the internet will likely disappear, but many won't, and the key factor is after you've posted it, you quickly lose control over its ultimate fate.