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I doubt they will be stored forever. They will be lucky to make it through a great recession. A forgotten scratch in a forgotten passage can last as long as the

I doubt they will be stored forever. They will be lucky to make it through a great recession. A forgotten scratch in a forgotten passage can last as long as the building. But digital media requires someone to constantly maintain it. If we all move from Instagram and Facebook goes broke, you can bet those selfies will go the same way as geocities.

cm2187 7y ago
Except that the cost of storing this data is constantly going down. I wouldn't be surprised if you could store all of the internet as of 2000 in a handful of modern 16TB drives.