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.
I think it still holds as a metaphor.
Pencil strokes can be erased easily, but pen strokes can’t. They will still fade over time, or the library can catch fire, but it’s not under your direct control.
You say that like arson isn’t a thing.