morbid thought for the day: what happens to the blogs of people who die? or any sort of online presence not dependent on a bill being paid to keep it running, for that matter (there’s likely a webpage/forum or two hundred dedicated to this very subject, but for now i’ll be lazy and indulge in idle speculation). will there be any longterm effort to cull the web of truly ‘dead’ sites? or instead, will the livejournals of the deceased be configured with some sort of automatic epitaph (i’m envisioning the ‘six feet under’ whitescreen), to let visitors know not to expect any further updates?

more likely than either scenerio, they’ll probably all just sit there, collecting random but futile hits, forever. or at least until the crash of 2029, which will wipe the internet clean, forcing us to start amassing porn again from scratch.

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