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Eh, while the web is amazing at publicly exposing everything. It also has a ridiculously short lifespan. I would guess these kinds of things will be far less
by swalsh 14y ago
Eh, while the web is amazing at publicly exposing everything. It also has a ridiculously short lifespan. I would guess these kinds of things will be far less of a factor then we imagine them to be.
- eru 14y agoYou mean short attention span? The lifespan of things on the net can be quite long, thanks to various archives and caches.
- gwern 14y agoThe lifespan can be quite long, but that doesn't mean it will be for any particular item. Many things from just a few years ago have vanished (as I discover every time I run a linkchecker utility on my website looking for broken links...). I think of it as a Poisson distribution. What will happen is most people's histories will be mostly gone, and some will be largely intact.