Somehow rediscovered Posthaven earlier today.
The concept iself is very interesting. For a paltry(?) fee of $5 a month, the service will host your content (in the form of blog entries) forever. I have no idea how it differentiates itself from other hosted solutions (1, 2), however. But the concept, as I mentioned, is very interesting.
Which begs the question...
In a world where content is constantly being produced, both in terms of the front-end (writing, photos and video), but also on the back-end, in terms of the intracacies of the digital systems (logging, user interaction, ...) ...
Has humanity reached a stage where all our information is in such a state of flux that future generations will be unable to gain insight and understandings as to our society as most of the content that we produce, and experience, is simply... gone.
Deleted.
Erased.
Simply vanished.
Places on the Internet that once served as a haven for individuals, for self-expression, for learning and gaining your own identity... Simply erased from existence.
Projects like the Internet Archive can, to some extent, alleviate the issue, but further problems arise, in the form of 2 issues:
- 1) Scale. The Internet Archive does not have the budget, nor the capacity or technology to archive the entire Internet in real-time.
- 2) Closed networks. Sites that have their own internal ecosystems (most prevalent in social networks like Facebook and Twitter) cannot be readily archived, due to: i) Algorithms that create a different experience for every single individual, and on every single reload of the page, and ii) The closed nature of it.
There is simply no modern-day equivalent of the library of Alexandria, which is quite a pity.