A Strange Immortality

Most people, unless they have a presidential library dedicated to them or they've had a biography published, seem to just disappear after their death. But not bloggers and the guests who've left comments on their websites.

Once something has been published on the Internet, it has a good chance of being saved somewhere. For instance, you can view archived versions of my website on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine copied from a few of the hosts I've used: infoway.com, AOL and dkgoodman.com. Unfortunately, the archives don't have any web pages from my first web sites on The Source, CompuServe and Linex. However, I've copied to my current host an old homepage from when I was on CompuServe, which you can find here.

The comments guests leave here could be the only access the public has to their thoughts. Maybe someone should start a web site dedicated to archiving peoples writing, photography, art and music. Not web pages, just content. Perhaps they would be accessible to the public only after the subject has passed on, but prior to that they can continue to add material, and after the fact their heirs can contribute.

Just a thought, albeit a morbid one.


Blog Tag: Opinion