http://lbrandy.com/blog/2008/08/this-is-a-test/ { on programming and the internets, every monday } Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:39:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://lbrandy.com/blog/2008/08/this-is-a-test/comment-page-1/#comment-552 lbrandy.com » Blog Archive » Immortality Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:58:44 +0000 http://www.lbrandy.com/wordpress/?p=5#comment-552 [...] Every time you and I post to the internet, someone somewhere might archive it. And those archives will keep getting saved. Saved and copied and saved again. These archives may seem, now, to be only a novelty, but their importance as a historical tool will only grow as time moves forward. They will become increasingly more sacred. It’s kind of funny to think about historians digging through the early Internet Archives and writing a paper on the Rick Roll meme. What’s interesting, though, is that I’m pretty certain almost every participant in these “early” internet times (ie, us) is going to leave some mark in that archive. That means every time you write something, it might get saved for the rest of humanity to read, ever after. I don’t think ever before has every person had this much access to this type of longevity. If the Internet is immortal, then we in it shall be remembered. [...] [...] Every time you and I post to the internet, someone somewhere might archive it. And those archives will keep getting saved. Saved and copied and saved again. These archives may seem, now, to be only a novelty, but their importance as a historical tool will only grow as time moves forward. They will become increasingly more sacred. It’s kind of funny to think about historians digging through the early Internet Archives and writing a paper on the Rick Roll meme. What’s interesting, though, is that I’m pretty certain almost every participant in these “early” internet times (ie, us) is going to leave some mark in that archive. That means every time you write something, it might get saved for the rest of humanity to read, ever after. I don’t think ever before has every person had this much access to this type of longevity. If the Internet is immortal, then we in it shall be remembered. [...]

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