> I think part of it was that growing up I truly believed the content I put on the internet would stick around. I didn't understand why things needed to be arch

> I think part of it was that growing up I truly believed the content I put on the internet would stick around. I didn't understand why things needed to be archived for posterity—the sites that were seemed to deserve such a fate anyway. Maybe this is where a lot of us fall short. Free and easily available content is easy to take for granted since there is an abundance of it, like the discussions here on HN. So we ignore capturing it with an underlying assumption that it will be available again in the future. Perhaps it's like the Bystander effect[0]? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect