Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work
by djsumdog on Friday July 15, 2016 @02:31PM
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I've had my own domains for over a decade and I switched my mail off Google to my own servers as well.
One thing I worry about thought: what happens when I die? My credit cards will eventually shut down, my Linode will turn off when my card gets declined, and my domains will fail to renew.
But the same thing happens the other direction. Github could shut down Github pages one day, or they could even go out of business. Geocities is gone (although I think Archive.org backed up a lot of it) and there are tons of services that have gone belly-up over the years.
Even in our age of massive data retention, it's still interesting to see what's gone, and what may never be recovered if it wasn't indexed by the Wayback machine.
Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work
by Pica_soO on Friday July 15, 2016 @03:07PM
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If it was/is culturally relevant it lives on in future works.
I don't think google looses anything internally.
They need that stuff one day to teach AI some tricks.
One thing I worry about thought: what happens when I die? My credit cards will eventually shut down, my Linode will turn off when my card gets declined, and my domains will fail to renew.
But the same thing happens the other direction. Github could shut down Github pages one day, or they could even go out of business. Geocities is gone (although I think Archive.org backed up a lot of it) and there are tons of services that have gone belly-up over the years.
Even in our age of massive data retention, it's still interesting to see what's gone, and what may never be recovered if it wasn't indexed by the Wayback machine.