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by hzay 4786 days ago
The written word leads to immortality. Although one could argue that writing and preserving writings are products of technology, I think you mean internet and such 21st century stuff, not the printing press or ink.

I don't mean to find fault - only replied because it never ceases to amaze me that people can talk to me across centuries.
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dmoney 4786 days ago
The written word is immortal, but websites are not. Eventually your domain name and hosting will expire, your server will die. Presumably someone is keeping Aaron's site alive, but by default, things you write on your own website will go away when you're gone.

Maybe someone should do a kickstarter for large buildings where printed websites can be stored for posterity.

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alecdbrooks 4785 days ago
The Internet Archive[0] is an organization that is working to preserve websites and online content, albeit not in printed form. In fact, they have an archive of Aaron's website[1] and a collection of other digital artifacts from his life[2].

[0]: http://archive.org/

[1]: http://wayback.archive-it.org/3492/20130113003702/http://www...

[2]: http://archive.org/details/aaronsw

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