With things shifting around the internet the past year, and also just…Having been on the internet for awhile now, I feel like this saying, while decent as a cautionary measure…May not really hold up past that. Am I being a little naive though?
Is some decade(s) old post of mine from some old forum really still floating around somewhere out there on some random old server chugging along?
I feel like even in the corporate web, a bunch of that old data’s probably been long lost courtesy of costcutting measures and businesses going under.
I think it’s less that it DOES exist forever and more that it CAN exist forever
You can’t guarantee that every copy was deleted, even if you can’t find it with a Google search.
Say you were able to check every accessible location on the internet, and you made sure it was deleted, you can’t guarantee that someone didn’t save it locally only to upload it again at a future date.