Ever since my first days on the Internet I knew the importance of keeping my tracks covered. While I never actually did anything on the Internet to warrant keeping my tracks covered, I felt that in the future something foolish I did as a child on the Internet could easily come back to haunt me.
The problem is, we live in an age beyond that of historical record. Almost everything that takes place on the Internet is logged somewhere, and it takes installing one of a few types of software to ensure your privacy when surfing. Unfortunately for everyday use it is impractical to use an anonymizer, since it takes significantly longer to bounce information randomly through a network of computers instead of going directly to the site.
Something I’ve found funny is the Internet mostly keeps record of major events and news that is interesting to the average Internet user. While almost all news does somehow land on the internet thus creating an excellent record, storage media we use is sensitive and does does not stand up well to wear and tear. If we were to all disappear today our history stored on flash memory or hard drives would be rusted or corrupted in less than 100 years, but a lot of print would still exist. The Internet is a great place to backup print media since multiple copies will surely be made by Internet archiving bots.
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