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.

  • Pons_Aelius
    6•11 months ago

    The problem is you don’t know what is in ink and what is in pencil till years after the fact.

    A forum I visited way back when, Kuro5hin, no longer exists but there is some snapshots on archive.org but I doubt that anything I wrote there is accessible (or traceable back to me either here of in real life.)

    A blog I wrote for a couple of years back around '07 is definitely still online. But again, there is no way to connect it to current me.

    TLDR: Be really sure before you put your real life name or identifying info to anything online.