The tremendous loss of digital artifacts involving such companies as Myspace, Flickr and Google+ highlights the impermanence of the Web. In the case of Myspace, the loss of the uploads appears accidental. Google+ users were given 10 months to download and move their data ahead of the site’s planned shutdown in April. As of last month, any files uploaded to the photo storage site Flickr beyond the 1,000-item threshold for free accounts risked deletion. Before it was sold and resold, Los Angeles-based Myspace was a popular, pioneering social network before Facebook swelled into the juggernaut of the Web.

Source: Washington Post March 19, 2019 17:01 UTC