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we've grown up with the idea that everything online is forever.
"once it's on the net, it's there forever" doesn't mean it will always be available at the original address, it means that even if you burn down the original address the resources can pop up again somewhere else because so many people will have local caches of them.
Websites often outlive their creators because storage is cheap and zombie sites usually have little traffic, so it costs more for the host to remove them than to leave them.
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I find this aspect of the Internet really interesting.
It feels like we've grown up with the idea that everything online is forever.