We’ve all heard that the Internet is making us dumb; with access to the world’s knowledge at our fingertips, people argue, there is no need to remember anything ever again. I’ll save that argument for another place and time and ask about something else: is it possible to forget in the age of the Internet?
Shortly after I submit this blog post, spiders will crawl this page and archive it forever. We are voluntarily creating records of everything we have ever thought or written down. This reality is part of the inspiration of Zach Gage’s Temporary.cc, a web page that destroys a part of itself for every unique visit it receives. There is no way to archive this information, because as Gage says “any subsequent act of viewing could irreparably modify it.”
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Shizzle.