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An Internet Graveyard
By Jeff Kelley
I am almost 50 years old and the Internet still fascinates me. I've been there from the start, so it is not like is is something new. I was on-line before there was an AOL, when I had to use a modem that was so slow, it would have been faster to go buy a Penthouse Magazine than wait for a picture to download. It has been fun watching it change over the years and become something that no one could have predicted. What I think about these days is all the internet junk floating around out there. Sort of like all the space debris floating around the earth, the internet is filled with tons of waste. Have you ever gone on a hunt for entertaining blogs? Try it. Go to a site like Blog Catalog. Start in the back looking at the older blogs first. How many of those you see have had an update within the last 12 months. I bet you'll find many that have not been updated for years. One interesting pattern you might see, one that I find humorous, goes something like this. The second to last post will be six months to a year before the very last one. Up until the second to last post, they blog-keeper was posting fairly regularly. Eventually a long gap before that last post, which is one in which he or she apologizes for not posting in a while but are determined to get back into blogging more often. I found one in which the subject was a overweight middle age man set up a blog to document his attempt to get in to shape. After two or three posts, nothing. Did he give up on the blog, or his fitness program. I might guess both. Blogging seems like a good idea for many people but when it comes down to it, it is not easy. There is only so many times you can post about how cute you cat is, or how you kids drive you crazy. The question I often wonder is what will become of all this data? I realize that on blogs that are actually paid for, after a while they will go away. Is the information still on some server some where? And what about the all those free sites, like Blogspot and Wordpress? Will some internet Archaeologist in the year 2150 be sifting through all that data, trying to figure out how those people of the early 21st century lived? Yes, the picture of your dog doing that funny thing might live on And I have to almost, I've got a few out there that I have not updated in years. I think I'll leave them there for the future. |
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