The "conversations as unit of storage" decision is smart. I've lost count of how many bookmarked tweets became incomprehensible after the original context got deleted.
The irony is we're in an era of "everything is digital and permanent" but everyday internet content disappears faster than physical letters did. My grandmother's correspondence from the 1960s survived in a shoebox. My conversations from 2015? Gone with whatever platform shut down or changed their TOS.
Static sites really are the answer for personal archiving. No dependencies, no server to maintain, viewable in any browser for decades. The Twitter archive approach mentioned here was genuinely well-engineered - shame the company that made it doesn't seem to care about preservation anymore.
jackfranklyn•45m ago
The irony is we're in an era of "everything is digital and permanent" but everyday internet content disappears faster than physical letters did. My grandmother's correspondence from the 1960s survived in a shoebox. My conversations from 2015? Gone with whatever platform shut down or changed their TOS.
Static sites really are the answer for personal archiving. No dependencies, no server to maintain, viewable in any browser for decades. The Twitter archive approach mentioned here was genuinely well-engineered - shame the company that made it doesn't seem to care about preservation anymore.