Something I’ve been thinking a lot is how much of the pre-2010 internet has been totally obliterated during this decade. Photos deleted, social profiles gone forever, old sites and blogs just wiped out. https://t.co/oUTceC05fW

— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) December 28, 2019

I think about this a lot, too. There are dozens of sites that I used to visit regularly that almost no trace of can now be found. They are not anywhere. Not in the Internet Archive. Barely mentioned on any other site, and of course Google only cares about what happened in the last five minutes these days.

Of course most of what happened is lost to history. But we could do better and did not.