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I find it an interesting social phenomenon that the finite nature of content on the Web is lamented, when content has been temporal for all of human history.
by Thorentis 7y ago
I find it an interesting social phenomenon that the finite nature of content on the Web is lamented, when content has been temporal for all of human history.
- jtbayly 7y agoAnd a concern for a long time as well. Witness the Dead Sea scrolls, the many things literally carved into stone, etc.
- makapuf 7y agoCarved stone is a bit more durable that that nice Myspace page was, however. Yes it was not widespread and was difficult to setup but millennia of duration is nice. I think that the medium, be it a hosting site or you own domain, will fail. What we need is maybe : a naming scheme that can transfer to different people (replicated files on different servers indexed by content hash? Aka anonymous ftp mirrors ... ) and common media ie readable by anyone, gracefully degrading.