With things shifting around the internet the past year, and also just…Having been on the internet for awhile now, I feel like this saying, while decent as a cautionary measure…May not really hold up past that. Am I being a little naive though?
Is some decade(s) old post of mine from some old forum really still floating around somewhere out there on some random old server chugging along?
I feel like even in the corporate web, a bunch of that old data’s probably been long lost courtesy of costcutting measures and businesses going under.
The problem is you don’t know what is in ink and what is in pencil till years after the fact.
A forum I visited way back when, Kuro5hin, no longer exists but there is some snapshots on archive.org but I doubt that anything I wrote there is accessible (or traceable back to me either here of in real life.)
A blog I wrote for a couple of years back around '07 is definitely still online. But again, there is no way to connect it to current me.
TLDR: Be really sure before you put your real life name or identifying info to anything online.