How am I going to protect my 4 decades of diary writing so that my kid’s kids can read them with the same interest I am my grandma’s? What happens when Twitter disappears. More importantly when it doesn’t give me access to all my tweets*. Or Flickr closes and I lose the photos therein? When the email I have sent over the last 10 years is consumed by the company I work for? What happens in 30 years when PHP and MySQL and Linux no longer exist?
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How will my grandkids ever find out what I thought of their wedding day if Twitter is bought by AOL and completely buggered?
Preservation
February 12th, 2009 § 2 comments
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Tis obvious. A private hosted WordPress site with regular backups. Even if WordPress isn’t around in X number of years, it’s widespread use will guarantee that whatever does come along later, someone will have sorted out a way to transfer content.
Write it all down.
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