The internet is an endless trove of art and culture. It’s easy to think that it’ll be around forever. Young people are often warned, for example, not to put anything scandalous online because “what’s online stays online.” There’s some truth to this. But also there are a million caveats.
Just try to find pictures from your road trip in 2008. They’re out there somewhere, right? But are they on MySpace, Tumblr, or Facebook? Can you even access any of those accounts anymore? Or try to look up that catchy song from your friend’s band in college. Was it posted to Bandcamp or Soundcloud? Why does nothing come up for it in Google?
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