Re:'The Internet is for Porn' – Blackmail in 2033
by eru on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @01:11PM
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You mean short attention span? The lifespan of things on the net can be quite long, thanks to various archives and caches.
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Re:'The Internet is for Porn' – Blackmail in 2033
by gwern on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @02:06PM
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The lifespan can be quite long, but that doesn't mean it will be for any particular item. Many things from just a few years ago have vanished (as I discover every time I run a linkchecker utility on my website looking for broken links...). I think of it as a Poisson distribution.
What will happen is most people's histories will be mostly gone, and some will be largely intact.