A reflective essay on the fragility of digital data and the inevitability of bitrot. Covers three layers of data loss: web hosting failures (dead links, shuttered platforms), incompatible file formats (floppy disks, Flash), and hardware degradation (hard drive shelf life). The author speculates that roughly 80% of the internet will eventually become lost media, notes the Internet Archive's own fragility, and shares their personal approach of using static hosting to reduce maintenance burden. Concludes with a philosophical acceptance that data decay is inevitable.
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