I have been adding my own crap to the Internet for years. Now, apps like Timehop let me go back and reminisce. This was six years ago today.My blog is nearly twice as old as that, however.
A 2003 page copy from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
I am sort of proud of the longevity of my blog and my sheer tenacity. I often find access to the years of data as a valuable tool in remembering when we did something or another. I have entered stories from prior to the start of the blog itself, so it really does act as a sort of ongoing, personal life history. I can search for a term, and see if I ever mentioned it.
I am amazing, yada yada.
For many years, I'm not exactly sure how many, I have been using Flickr for the actual storage of all of my photos. The ones I use really sit there and I just include to embed the images. Today, I noticed that the picture in the 2009 entry was still being hosted on my domain. I hadn't shifted over to Flickr for my eJournal and images. I cannot see www.dennissylvesterhurd.com existing forever. If I fail to renew the domain, for whatever reason, my words would remain intact here but I would lose all the photos stored at my old address. Truly, I should make it a goal to move over all those images to Flickr too.
Entries from that former era, formatted in today's copy.
Today, I worked on getting a few weeks' worth switched over. I have faith that Flickr and Google can keep my story active until the big thermonuclear holocaust or the great asteroid collision. Hopefully, by then we'll have backed up the whole Internet for safe keeping to a multitude of interstellar probes headed into the universe in all directions.
A future, alien race will eventually be able to see when Jay and I took a Greyhound bus to Calgary. I will sleep easier tonight, I think.