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May. 17th, 2016 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethIt is super unhelpful that I keep on basically getting panic attacks
because a web page turns out not to be there any more.
I mean, 90s archives and unused fansites are a loss, but not a surprising one.
Same thing happens when something of mine is busted
just horrible sinking feeling panic
which is really unhelpful when I could in fact fix it if I could get my head together long enough.
It's weird because spoken conversations are always ephemeral, you expect the past to be gone once it's done, but web pages vanishing somehow feels different even if it's basically still social interaction.
I want libraries of the future to know all about what we said about everything.
... it's super unlikely anyone will want to read it, but I want it to go on being there.
(I miss fanfic once it's gone, even if I haven't read it for a decade.)
(I have books I've owned way longer than that just sitting around, why do the web pages not last so long?)
(*sigh*)
because a web page turns out not to be there any more.
I mean, 90s archives and unused fansites are a loss, but not a surprising one.
Same thing happens when something of mine is busted
just horrible sinking feeling panic
which is really unhelpful when I could in fact fix it if I could get my head together long enough.
It's weird because spoken conversations are always ephemeral, you expect the past to be gone once it's done, but web pages vanishing somehow feels different even if it's basically still social interaction.
I want libraries of the future to know all about what we said about everything.
... it's super unlikely anyone will want to read it, but I want it to go on being there.
(I miss fanfic once it's gone, even if I haven't read it for a decade.)
(I have books I've owned way longer than that just sitting around, why do the web pages not last so long?)
(*sigh*)