Watching Elon Musk finally reveal what a dumb ass he really is is quite exciting, but this is an example of something troubling that’s going to happen with the internet generation.
We have a whole generation of people who mainly live their lives online. When these internet companies (like yahoo and geocities, and Twitter lol )and other internet company go under, all of the people’s data is lost with the company. MySpace is another example. There are peoples lives that just get deleted, and if most of your life was documented online. Your life history gets deleted when these companies fail.
Too many people think “the internet never forgets” means that it’s a large permanent data store, not that if you’re shitty, someone’s bound to bring receipts someday.
The internet is not a storage medium. The cloud is not permanent. There is no internet, there’s only other people’s computers.
Watching Elon Musk finally reveal what a dumb ass he really is is quite exciting, but this is an example of something troubling that’s going to happen with the internet generation.
We have a whole generation of people who mainly live their lives online. When these internet companies (like yahoo and geocities, and Twitter lol )and other internet company go under, all of the people’s data is lost with the company. MySpace is another example. There are peoples lives that just get deleted, and if most of your life was documented online. Your life history gets deleted when these companies fail.
Too many people think “the internet never forgets” means that it’s a large permanent data store, not that if you’re shitty, someone’s bound to bring receipts someday.
The internet is not a storage medium. The cloud is not permanent. There is no internet, there’s only other people’s computers.