I host all my own stuff, but unless I get my shit together and create a set of docs for someone I trust, once I die, my domain, e-mail and all my blogs will disappear and accounts expire and credit card payments fail -- except for whatever wayback might tag important enough to index.

The great libraries of Greece, the technology used to build the Pyramids of Giza, the process the Romans used to make concrete ... all lost. Sure we can reconstruct and examine, but so much is filling in the gaps with guess world. If some alien race found our hard drives and CDs long after we had gone extinct, where would you even begin to decode the data without a rosetta stone?

I have two archive.org webjumps for the conkeror browser:

  define_webjump("wayback", "http://web.archive.org/*/%s");
  define_webjump("wbsave", function(url) { return "http://web.archive.org/save/"+url; } );

Rant from a person who is not in Silicon Valley:

This is so fucking typical of SV. No commitments, no stability, no personal pride in keeping things working for decades if needed. Just the hunt for the next thing, and fuck whatever you worked on last month.