Regardless of what your parents may have once told you, it is not true to say that once something is online, it will be there forever. On the contrary, we’ve lost significant chunks of what used to be part of the World Wide Web to time and ‘link rot.’

Inevitably, the content of the dead is also changing how we grieve, with an increasing body of research showing that forms of online or digital content are replacing traditional mourning objects such as items of clothing, trinkets, religious symbols, or gravestones.

I suspect (or hope) that when I pass, the web may look very different. Yet I can’t help but wonder what will happen to all the essays, photos, posts, and messages I have shared and will share online in the future.

Read more about it: https://neonaut.neocities.org/cyber/crypt/