Gemini Archiving and WARC

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Caranatar once stated:
> Tom writes:
> 
> > Ounce you publish something to the internet there is no retracting it.
> > This is one of the first things I was taught the first time I used the
> > net. Alongside never using your real name on the net unless your
> > publishing something.
>
> This seems like an incredibly cynical and myopic take. 

  I also think it's an incredibly realistic take.

> It's also
> expected that everything on the internet will track you, will be
> constantly expanded for the purpose of commercialization instead of user
> experience, etc.... Yet Gemini purposefully rejects those notions in
> favor of something better. The idea that the same shouldn't apply here
> is odd.

  Even though Gemini (and gopher to an extent) reject those ideas, it
doesn't mean privacy or control over the content.  I wrote about this last
year:

	http://boston.conman.org/2019/10/29.2
	gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2019/10/29.2
	gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2019/10/29.2

(take your pick of format)

  I even quote the same solderpunk article (and another one not by
solderpunk) about how they're ... well ... "wrong" is the wrong word here,
but it's close ... perhaps "misguided" is what I'm thinking of.  Information
that is publically available (and by any measure, most of Gemini is public)
can, and will, travel in mysterious ways, which I discuss in my post above.

  I can find stuff I posted to USENET in 1993 *today*.  I can still find my
first website from 1997.

  -spc (I think I seriously just dated myself ... )