With things shifting around the internet the past year, and also just…Having been on the internet for awhile now, I feel like this saying, while decent as a cautionary measure…May not really hold up past that. Am I being a little naive though?
Is some decade(s) old post of mine from some old forum really still floating around somewhere out there on some random old server chugging along?
I feel like even in the corporate web, a bunch of that old data’s probably been long lost courtesy of costcutting measures and businesses going under.
We have far more capacity to archive than we have to recall, and this holds true even as an individual.
Which is to say that everything posted is indelible (“written in ink”), but the vast majority of it is rendered transient (“written in pencil”) by way of a huge amount of obscurity.
Or, in simpler terms, it’s both :)