Where will my blog be in 50 years?
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King of a weird question, but have the people at wordpress.com put any thought in to longevity. Example, Let’s say I live a full life and I’ve got another 30-40 years of blogging in me. What happens when I pass on? Will my blog stay online? Will it be deleted after 50 years? will it be placed in a special archive? Or will it all just disappear? I realize that it would difficult to make a long commitment of this sort, but just wonder if there has been any discussion about it.
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There’s currently no process at WP.com for deceased people. Presumably, you’ll stop updating, and you’ll have a back up on your hard drive, as all bloggers should have.
Who knows what the internet will even look like in 50 years?
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My opinion is that I doubt seriously if wordpress will even be around in 20 years, perhaps not even in 10. First off, the technology and coding used today will likely be completely forgotten in 10-20 years, replaced by something else, which will render everything done with CSS and HTML obsolete and no longer viewable.
As for 50 years, I wonder if the internet will even be around by then.
My suggestion, don’t count on either being around.
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tsp’s comment makes me wonder whether there could be a market for taking blogs and engraving them on stone tablets. Its just about the only proven way that documents can survive in the real long-term. ;-)
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There are certainly numerous services that will print a book out of them, yet another reason to concentrate on text blogging.
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tandava108 is entirely correct, stone (or crystal) is the most durable medium. A few years back there was an interesting article about the durability of stone as compared to all modern media and that laser technology made it possible to carve crystal so densely as to have an entire library on a single slice.
But then again, technology predictors also said we’d have flying cars by now. :)
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Just what we need, flying cars. People can’t stay in their own lanes now due to cell phones, FB status updates, twitting and texting. Can you imagine a pilot of a flying car over LA shaving while checking and responding to emails and talking with his personal assistant about “doing” lunch with Mel Gibson at Granada?
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I think that personal flying cars could only become available when they are 100% automated and extremely reliable. They are probaly closer to 100 years away than 50.
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It’s not the flying cars that worry me. It’s the pilots. Imagine pulling Mel Gibson over for buzzing an endangered flock of birds.
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This is interesting because a few months ago I interacted with a blog author who was all pumped about how we are “recording history” and creating information that later generations will read. I was skeptical. Even if a lot of information survived into the future, we would then be faced with the problem of information glut. Things would get lost in the pile. But as a guy who likes old books, I wonder how we will be remembered 100 years from now. I think I <i>will</i> back up my blog to a book!
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