My eye-opener was when I discovered that all of those 20th century posts to netnews (over our high-speed 19.2 dial up UUNET connection) were acquired by Google and indexed and made freely available.
People are very much oblivious to the idea that things posted online are forever. How many websites have tried in vain to purge regretable content**, only to see it dredged up (in the short term) in Google's cache or (in the long term) by the Wayback machine? ** I was Stalinized by a former employer who at one time referred to me (correctly) as a founder, and then later eliminated all traces of that title, except for all of those cached press releases. Oops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43305 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
