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Often it's the domain renewal issue. People won't keep paying the domain for an irrelevant website, even if the hosting itself is free. OTOH, why would we want to keep everything that was ever written on the internet, forgetting is a natural process in culture.


I think there's a lot of sadness around forgetting. I'd like to preserve almost all of it, really.

That's why we have stories, and care about legacy. All to avoid forgetting and being forgotten.


Put static HTML on GitHub pages and it'll probably stay up forever..

Well, at the time scale of forever, it's always sketchy, but the odds are decent.




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