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.
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