404 - Life Not Found: Combating The Digital Dark Ages
Stop. Now take a moment and think about your life...pre-internet. Hard to remember, isn't it? Like a growing number of people today, one of the first places I log into when going online is Facebook. It's almost a natural reflex now when I turn on the computer. It's even found a way into my face-to-face conversations when discussing other individual's status updates from that day. I'm sure, like you, a scary amount of my life has become almost entirely digital. In the 21st century, people practically live and die through electronic means: Texts, email, instant messaging, digital documents, mp3s, blogs, forums, videos, pictures, cell phones. At this moment there are 826 photos on Facebook in which I am tagged. And with one hack of that site, the crash of several key servers or simply the person who posted them deleting the albums that stores them, all those pictures could be gone in an instant. The average life of a website is 44 to 75 days-just about twice the lengt...