Not true–it’s still there, but it’s not SEO-optimized so you’ll never find it.
Once it's on the Internet, it stays forever, but only for the things you DON'T want. For the things you DO want, it will be wiped off the face of the Earth by tomorrow.
Submitted 18 hours ago by TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Valmond@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I have a couple of gigas of unique data, videogames + sources from the early mobile game era, don’t know what to do with it. Gotta find some data-museum or something 😋
Zachariah@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
it’s good to have pirates for friends
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Exactly. Just recently found out a favorite creator of mine has shut down his youtube channel and all their videos spanning over a decade are just gone. Feelsbadman.jpg.
varyingExpertise@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Yep. I archive channels I like locally.
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
I’m looking at you, Little Big Planet user content.
KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
I found all my old levels.
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
The hero we need
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Basically nothing from before 2010 that I posted online can be found except for some fragments on the Wayback Machine.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
It is more of, if the librarians don’t have a copy; it will not exist in the next 20 years
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Anything scandalous embedded from photobucket is safe though. It was as if millions of forum users cried out in horror at once c. 2018
LockheedTheDragon@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Assume anything you post will live on. Everything else could vanish so save it if you need the evidence.
cynar@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Data rot is a serious problem.
I suspect that our time period will end up as an information dark age to future historians.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
The Digital Dark Age is definitely a thing.