Porter Robinson Quotes

When you die, nobody pays your hosting company, and your work disappears. Like that.

With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present, ever searchable, unforgetting external memories that only grows as one ages.

Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever.

Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to resurface when we least expect it. Yes, everything you do in the digital realm may as well be broadcast on prime-time television and chiseled on the side of the Parthenon.

I'm a person who always wanted to turn my life into an archive. Social media made my dream come true.

TheIinternet is a timeless void - you put something in there, and it's there forever and loses a lot of context.

It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.

Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.

People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship.

I love documenting. Having these videos forever is priceless to me, so I think I will be doing it forever, but who knows if YouTube is gonna be around forever.

Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.

I want to prevent us reifying 'the Internet' as something to be preserved like some people want to preserve the American Constitution as it was written.

We've had a digital revolution, but we don't need to keep having it. And I'd like to look after that, to look what comes after the digital revolution.

I've been online since 1989; I was sysop on several CompuServe forums.

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

My parents were early adopters, and I've been online since a rather young age. You should regard anything from 2001 or earlier as having been written by a different person who also happens to be named 'Eliezer Yudkowsky.' I do not share his opinions.

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

Rex is 60 years old with 13 million images and 10 million in archive. It's the first time we've had a historic archive to work with, which is super interesting.

With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.

Snapchat changed that perception of deleting something as bad. Online, typically you delete something if it's bad or if it's really embarrassing.

We're all creating an archive of our own lives, whether we're aware of it or not.

We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

Now, not every blog post or 'Top 10 Ways to Make Money on the Internet' piece deserves to live forever. But there's gold among the dross, and there are web publications that we would do well to preserve for historical purposes.

People should think about e-mail as something where they are archiving their lives.