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by jazzyjackson
590 days ago
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Don't take for granted that just because its stored digitally means its going to live forever. Data has to be copied to survive, if no one cares to migrate data from one platform to another, and that company goes under, probably the harddrives will be wiped. My entire high school experience was documented on myspace.com but when ownership transferred to News Corp and they tried to pivot the site to some other business model they accidentally deleted like half the user data iirc. So all those photos are gone, small blessing. |
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"The internet never forgets" was a fun notion to quip about when the WWW was only a few years old, but that was a quarter of a century ago.
The reality is that it forgets shit all the time.