With things shifting around the internet the past year, and also just…Having been on the internet for awhile now, I feel like this saying, while decent as a cautionary measure…May not really hold up past that. Am I being a little naive though?

Is some decade(s) old post of mine from some old forum really still floating around somewhere out there on some random old server chugging along?

I feel like even in the corporate web, a bunch of that old data’s probably been long lost courtesy of costcutting measures and businesses going under.

  • bionicjoey
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    6 months ago

    I would say it’s written in disappearing ink. It can’t be erased easily but can fade with time (assuming nobody comes along and adds more ink to repair the fading)