There’s a saying that “the internet never forgets” but that’s just wishful thinking. Storing data on servers takes money, time, and effort. Eventually, something you care about will be wiped from the web forever. The good news is that you can do something about it now.
Web Content Is Always Under Threat
Just a day before I sat down to write this, Paramount removed almost everything from the Comedy Central and MTV websites. The Internet Archive, arguably one of the most important websites on the internet, has been forced to remove around 500,000 books from its site. While archival sites do their best to preserve what they can, legal and financial pressures will inevitably lead to losses of content and our easy access to it. Even peer-to-peer hosting of rare content, such as implemented by the Internet Archive, doesn’t guarantee that eventually some torrents will have no seeds. Streaming services and digital content such as ebooks and digital-only games can likewise disappear in the blink of an eye.
We ourselves, as collective users of the web, can individually preserve content. So don’t let time and entropy rob you of the content you think should be saved somewhere. Here’s how you can keep a small piece of our culture safe from digital death.
You can read more in an article by Sydney Butler published in the howtogeek.com web site at: https://bit.ly/4ctnHd3