Here’s something I hate about the internet. Things disappear. I admire the Internet Archive for their tireless work to archive the web but robots.txt, copyright restrictions, and the sheer volume of the ‘everything’ makes it difficult to capture everything. I know it’s a practical matter at the moment and the internet is ephemeral in nature continually overturning. Still, watching history disappear before my eyes is weird to me. [it’s possible I have a backup somewhere, and it’s possible I don’t – just as it’s possible the server owner might or might not have it (I _could_ always contact them) and it’s likely the article wasn’t that great anyway. But the point is: the internet is sometimes too much like a living brain and less like an archive. This gives power to the thought changers.

Here’s something I hate about the internet. Things disappear.

I admire the Internet Archive for their tireless work to archive the web but robots.txt, copyright restrictions, and the sheer volume of the ‘everything’ makes it difficult to capture everything.

I know it’s a practical matter at the moment and the internet is ephemeral in nature continually overturning.

Still, watching history disappear before my eyes is weird to me.

[it’s possible I have a backup somewhere, and it’s possible I don’t – just as it’s possible the server owner might or might not have it (I _could_ always contact them) and it’s likely the article wasn’t that great anyway.

But the point is: the internet is sometimes too much like a living brain and less like an archive. This gives power to the thought changers.

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