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Some books have words and ideas from many hundreds of years ago. Newspapers as well. Statements in court are written down as well.
by wolco 8y ago
Some books have words and ideas from many hundreds of years ago. Newspapers as well. Statements in court are written down as well.
- chrisco255 8y agoYeah, but books were always intentional works of art in which a lot of thought goes into them. Newspapers would at best record public interviews or press conferences but even then they would often paraphrase. Admit it, casual speech recorded for posterity is a weird feature of modern life.
- snarfy 8y agoThey always threatened in school 'this will go down on your permanent record', and then we went ahead and built one.
- Barrin92 8y agoPublic utterances from the CEO's of billion dollar companies historically landed in newspapers or archives so I don't see how it is accurate to say that this sort of speech was somehow ephemeral in the past.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoNewspapers didn't have a full text search index.
- hueving 8y agoNo, they only ended up in newspapers when they were news at the time.
- TaylorAlexander 8y agoSure but it’s a weird feature he developed for profit. Odd that he is excluded but we aren’t.
- daveFNbuck 8y agoYou can delete your old posts if you find them embarrassing.
- harry8 8y agoNonsense. You can flag them as embarrassing and hope for the best. They are not deleted. If you think they are actually deleted nothing I or anyone else says can help you, I'm sorry.
- daveFNbuck 8y agoI think they stop appearing in the public record, which is the thing people are talking about in this thread.