MikeUpton Posted June 29, 2009 Report Posted June 29, 2009 Have any of you ever thought of what it might be like, if say 20 or so odd years down the road, say for example, your future daughter was reading the things you wrote and thinking about you? To all of my future family who may read my posts at this later date, whenever it may be, i love you! Quote
Dravin Posted June 29, 2009 Report Posted June 29, 2009 Well, assuming they can get their hands on some archives that far back and everything else for the premise to work. I imagine they'll think I'm dorky and embarrassing. Kinda like how I imagine them to react to the few journal entries I've kept. Quote
pam Posted June 29, 2009 Report Posted June 29, 2009 For any member of my family reading this 20 years from now. I really do like my brother in law John Doe. But seeing how I know that they won't read this 20 years from now..I'm still safe in that little secret. Quote
Moksha Posted June 29, 2009 Report Posted June 29, 2009 There have been so many nuggets for future historians and anthropologists on all the LDS forums. The biggest question is whether any forum writings will be preserved. Can you imagine a world bereft of the the collected wisdom of Palerider or Elphaba? Quote
Mahone Posted June 29, 2009 Report Posted June 29, 2009 There are actually a few archives of "the internet" around. Some websites work like google, they basically spider the web every so often, the difference being that they keep each snapshot of the internet that their spider gets. Internet Archive is probably the most well known of these.However, it's not exactly a secret that governments record all our internet activity. They say there is a limit to how long they keep the data, but no-one is exactly monitoring that. No doubt they do something similar to the website mentioned above as well, but on a much wider scale as they have a much higher budget. Google may also keep the snapshots it makes of the internet and we'd never know about it. There could well be a time in the future where government internet archives become public under the freedom of information act.So basically I wouldn't be so sure that what you say in public online now and what you do on the internet will be hidden from the generations of the future. Quote
ploomf Posted June 29, 2009 Report Posted June 29, 2009 I hope my future kids don't ever read what I've written on the Internet. It would totally destroy the illusion that I'm a responsible adult. Quote
Mahone Posted July 2, 2009 Report Posted July 2, 2009 Anyone wonder what LDS.net looked like in 1998? Look here: LDS.NET - Global Online Community Quote
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