This was a surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I created this blog in 2013, I created a new Yahoo email account specifically for the blog so as to maintain some degree of separation from my main email. I logged into it today. I was surprised and somewhat dismayed by what I found, which was Nothing. That is to say, everything was gone. Every single email sent and email received, gone; the drafts folder, empty; spam, trash, everything was deleted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Right when I logged on, a brief message said something ridiculous like “Emails in accounts subject to inactivity will be deleted.” I think I last logged in in September 2019…<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Thankfully I didn’t have much important on there. In the heyday of this blog a few people would send replies to that email, so those are gone. A few people contacted me via that email having read something on the blog, one I recall was on advice on hiking the Baekdu-Daegan cross-country mountain trail in South Korea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As data losses go, this is not a big one, but is one of those periodic reminders of how ephemeral all Internet content really is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe it’s ironic that the Internet is so ephemeral, but an observed fact in my life. A huge majority of words I have ever typed are gone forever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I still remember the sudden loss of all my KakaoTalk archives from a period of over three years in Korea, a punch in the gut given that it doubled as a kind of daily diary and record of what I was doing\/saying for all that time. I even had a chatroom with myself (a feature they introduced about 2016, I think) where I jotted down notes or daily spending. The sudden and total deletion of my entire KakaoTalk archive was because of some trivial phone number adjustment thing. No warning, just a total deletion. I tried band inquired but there was no way to recover it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As someone (Anne R.) said to me recently, “If it’s not printed out, it doesn’t exist.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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