I'm running a Wordpress 4 installation.* I'm very interested in
preserving the web.* I've been online since 1988 (PC-Link, then
AOL), BBS's, then from 1990 onwards, I've been on the Internet,
running mailing lists on LISTSERV... and Usenet... and then...
watching my VERY WORDS DISAPPEAR over time. Finding something
post 1994 (when Usenet's fade began) and pre 2009 (Google's
short-term memory) is _not easy_, especially if your data was on
a large social network such as AOL or Myspace... and even on
Forums that come and go, etc. I look at the public library and
see books that stopped printing in 2009, 2011, 2013... all "web
only". And.. this is *great* in so many ways... But as "the
Cloud" is being promoted as an Everything Solution... we're
returning to dumb terminal/mainframe days.* This would be fine,
except for all the geographical redundancy and backup servers,
each mega company like Amazon or Google amount to a SINGLE POINT
OF ENTRY... and a single point of data loss. Let's say Amazon in
2023 gets taken over by another company.* They look at the cloud
servers, which will be ancient by then, and the rise of quantum
computer servers [or whatever new whiz-bang thing comes up] and
go, "hah, _the cloud_?* obsolete.* Trash 'em". And that's it.*
Poof. Where'd the data go?* Is it in a book?* Nope.* Is it
safely archived somewhere else?* *MAYBE*. That Maybe, should be
a YES. On my site, icopiedyou.com - I've been collecting
EVERYTHING I EVER WROTE online.* Everything I created... just -
everything. Doesn't matter that I'm a 43 year old guy that sits
on his computer, doing whatever. it's important to _me_... and
*could be* important to someone else someday for some reason.
Maybe it won't.* Doesn't matter.* We have the OPPORTUNITY to
actually _save everything_ and... it's harder than it should be.
Ok, enough of my rant :)* I'm interested in helping out.* Let me
know what I have to do. Kenneth Udut, Naples, FL
http://icopiedyou.com -- Kenneth Udut <
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