<p>I feel as though my online life, everything I’ve done for the past 4 years, has simply vanished. Years of chats, forum posts, arguments, stupidity, nonsense, all over the web, is gone, or close to it. Fragments are still there, of course, but the majority of it has melted into the nether-regions of cyberspace. But I was really proud of some of this stuff. Some of my best thoughts are just lost, gone forever.</p>
<p>I dunno, it just makes me feel sad.</p>
<p>Real life is worse since you can’t even archive anything.</p>
<p>(this is also why I don’t take philosophy classes, since you can’t even archive class discussions that happen by voice rather than by text)</p>
<p>Um what happened? Did the mods delete the forums or something? try archive.org - sometimes it archives a few things. Or use google cache. </p>
<p>next time use downthemall or httrack to mirror things before they disappear forever. I’ve archived everything since 2003 (but not 2001-2003 stuff, although the 2001 stuff I posted @ [Age</a> of Kings Heaven](<a href=“http://aok.heavengames.com%5DAge”>http://aok.heavengames.com) is still there)</p>
<p>I’m sorry .</p>
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<p>Yeah, but in the pre-internet days, people would just store their written letters very, very carefully.</p>
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<p>No, I just didn’t bother to save anything.</p>
<p>How much of day-to-day conversation do we lose this way without even noticing? I went to the beach with my friends a few days ago and they buried me in sand and stuff and it was amazing…but will I remember it in five years?</p>
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<p>Thanks for the tip. I tried DownTheMall, but unfortunately it doesn’t appear as though it can download items recursively, which, for multi-paged threads, is vitally important. Httrack seems more powerful, but it gives me errors…</p>
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<p>Argh! Just thinking about that makes me even sadder…</p>
<p>I’ve resolved to attempt a recovery of whatever can be recovered tonight (I have nothing better to do). I don’t know how successful I’ll be, but I sure as hell will try.</p>
<p>I noticed that we spend a lot of time trying to preserve the past for memory. Especially now, everybody’s always taking pictures or videoing everywhere they go. It’s not a bad thing, it’s just interesting. </p>
<p>If it’s something really important/life-changing, chances are it will be remembered even without photos/videos.</p>
<p>It makes me sad that you remind me of things to be sad over.</p>
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<p>Interesting observations…
Sometimes I also wonder whether our brains subconciously make less effort to store life-changing memories. Knowing it’s probably archived in a blog or photo somewhere, would we not bother to imprint it into our brains?</p>
<p>People don’t remember their friends’ phone numbers anymore. They gawk at me when I recite my dad’s and sister’s numbers from memory. I guess nowadays they have contact lists or whatever, and they don’t really need to remember as much…</p>
<p>This thread didn’t die as quickly as I thought it would.</p>
<p>Anyway, I did manage to recover a LOT of stuff, and I do feel a little bit happier now. :)</p>
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To be honest, though, my desire to save my stuff has less to do with remembering it than with having it. Potential-remembrance, I guess. I get these odd OCD-fueled quests every so often.</p>
<p>Dear aristotle1990,</p>
<p>Your thread on how to know if a girl likes you or not is the greatest in that subject of all time,</p>
<p>Sincerely,
CPAimaple</p>