Do You Ever Wonder What Happens to Your Old Articles?
I just scrolled back to my first one and got scared
I think old posts are hiding inside a server, in the middle of the arctic circle, or somewhere cold enough to freeze a phoenix. In this cold, dry place, they regroup, their words gather together, mix up their letters, and try to stay warm. Sometimes, at the cost of losing any meaning, they might have had.
Some pieces are sitting in a circle, trying to warm their paragraphs at the fire of a dead publication with only a few followers left.
Some pieces have many scars. They were edited too many times. The tags changed by 180 degrees, as the author was, unsuccessfully, trying to find a safe orbit around a publication. They finally got confidentially published, far from the bright lights, a shooting star briefly visible in the firmament.
Some articles might still fight. They try to stay strong, waiting for a determined reader to discover them. One ready to scroll down for a few minutes until a title catches their eyes. These readers are 2.0 gold-diggers, surfing the internet to find bitcoin nuggets on a lost page of a lost blog.
Here’s a request to you, dear Reader, next time you’ll appreciate someone’s work, take the time to dig into their archives. You could find a…
