The web is not a storage medium
23 May 2015 • liveblog.coIf I don’t pay my S3 bill, my data goes poof. I don’t think I can even pay to get it back. So miss one month and there goes everything I’ve been “building” on the web.
Fact is, nothing we have created so far is persistent. Archive.org is the closest, but I can’t map a name to their storage. It’s a useful back up but it’s not the web.
The web is ephemeral as the memory in your computer. It’s meant to go away. But we think of it as persistent. We are wrong to think of it that way.
Food for thought. Some days this really bothers me - and I wish I’d learned to build physical things instead of virtual things. Other days it blows my mind how amazing the virtual things we can build have become.