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A guy I know years ago insisted that it is far safer to put your content in the cloud than on your personal website, as big corporations will not go down. Somet

A guy I know years ago insisted that it is far safer to put your content in the cloud than on your personal website, as big corporations will not go down. Something like this will happen to content on Facebook and GitHub as well, sooner or later.

djsumdog 10y ago
Geocities is gone. Your old MySpace profile, photos and wall. All your digg comments and submissions if you ever used that. 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?
- erlehmann_ 10y ago
  To save a web page with the wayback machine, append its URL to http://web.archive.org/save/ http://web.archive.org/save/ and GET the resulting URL. 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; } );
- johansch 10y ago
  Your old digg data: http://digg.com/archive http://digg.com/archive
  - johansch 10y ago
    ..but when I entered my email address there the page told me they had sent me an email with further instructions. 3 hours later - no email. :/ 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.
  - djsumdog 10y ago
    Man that'd be awesome, if I didn't delete the e-mail address used with that username :(

djsumdog 10y ago

Geocities is gone. Your old MySpace profile, photos and wall. All your digg comments and submissions if you ever used that. 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?

erlehmann_ 10y ago
To save a web page with the wayback machine, append its URL to http://web.archive.org/save/ http://web.archive.org/save/ and GET the resulting URL. 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; } );
johansch 10y ago
Your old digg data: http://digg.com/archive http://digg.com/archive
- johansch 10y ago
  ..but when I entered my email address there the page told me they had sent me an email with further instructions. 3 hours later - no email. :/ 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.
- djsumdog 10y ago
  Man that'd be awesome, if I didn't delete the e-mail address used with that username :(