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Giomanach

 

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  		Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 9/28/2004 8:04:45   
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3693242.stm

Not sure if this is the right place but anyhoo..

After reading the article above from the BBC Tech News, it's got me wondering, how many of us actually think about keeping our sites running even after we have passed on?

My main question is, do we really need to do this for business sites? Or is it just something little personal sites need worry about. We all know that we aren't going to be around forever, but should our webs stand the test of time?

So, Is it really worth making your site stand the test of time to keep you in "cyberspace", and learn the true gift of immortaility, or do we just design it for business purposes and hope someone is prepared to take hold of it, or let it die along with us?

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  		RE: Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 9/28/2004 11:32:13   
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Perhaps one way to deal with this problem is to send a message to your loved ones after you are dead.

Using rather macabre sites like lastwishes.com, finalpartings.com or thelastemail.com you can write messages that should be sent to your regular correspondents in the event of your death.

Last Wishes and Final Partings let you send either e-mail or postal messages.

In addition to sending messages, Lastwishes lets you store anything you want and will only release it or your messages when contacted by your executor and shown a death certificate.


Creepy but I bet they make a fair bit of cash.

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But the sad truth is that once you are gone - no matter how quickly - then your website is likely to suffer a lingering death.

& that just depressed me. :(

It would be nice to think that my site(s) would be around forever, if even only in an archive somewhere.
If I ever got a nice windfall of cash one of the first things I said I would do is buy my domain name & pay a chunk of cash to my hosts so my site can run for a good few years without fear of it dying so to speak,

However, even then, what if the hosts go bust or the whole system of domains changes...

We have but a fleeting shot at making our mark I guess is the bottom line.

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  		RE: Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 9/28/2004 12:44:14   
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you can write messages that should be sent to your regular correspondents in the event of your death.
So presumably if several people who subscribe to these service and are regular correspondents all die at around the same time they will continue to communicate with each other until the auto responders give up.

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  		RE: Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 9/28/2004 13:29:54   
Great, more spam clogging up the net. :)

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  		RE: Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 9/29/2004 17:42:24   
Ha! philosophical time.

Now call me sad or something far worse but yes, I've thought about it.

One of my sites is of historical interest and I, plus a couple of friends, have invested a huge amount of time doing research for it. It's proving really popular now, attracting 4000+ visitors a month and growing.

I have spoken to the big cheese at the local museum and they're interested in it so I may very well bequeath it to them when the time comes.

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  		RE: Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 11/11/2005 9:56:49   
cool

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  		RE: Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 11/11/2005 10:05:32   
I doubt our sites will be around forever....the way coding and technology changes...we will be lucky if our sites stay up 25 years after we die....:)

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  		RE: Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 11/11/2005 10:19:22   
actually, the aspect that I wonder about is when you die, how do all the people you met on-line know you have passed?

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  		RE: Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 11/11/2005 10:23:11   
And I thought I had a bad day yesterday. Now I'm really depressed :)

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  		RE: Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 11/11/2005 11:00:49   
So that whole "If you build it they will come" thing only works with baseball fields and dead baseball players, and not websites and webmasters?

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  		RE: Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 11/11/2005 11:29:02   
I plan on coming to OF when dead

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  		RE: Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 11/11/2005 11:32:39   
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I plan on coming to OF when dead

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Now that's true dedication for you!
I may well join you - with all those angels and harps and stuff I guess heaven will get a little dull after a while :)

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  		RE: Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 11/11/2005 11:33:35   
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with all those angels and harps and stuff I guess heaven will get a little dull after a while
... not sure I will be residing there............

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  		RE: Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 11/11/2005 11:47:50   
:)
you're probably right, and I'll probably be 'elsewhere' too. I hear the entertainment in the other place is much better, and they haven't banned smoking and drinking there yet either. :)

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  		RE: Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 11/11/2005 12:57:03   
Do you think we will be able to get our email up there/down there?

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  		RE: Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 11/11/2005 13:06:03   
:)
I'm sure the respective managers of those places will have set something up. For the place down there though I guess the backup system will be smoke signals tho :)

<brainwave edit>Probably a 301 redirect and email autoresponder will take care of any glitches</brainwave edit>

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  		RE: Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 11/11/2005 13:17:07   
I think down there we would have to check our email by dial-up...AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!:)

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  		RE: Your Web Keeps you alive?? - 11/11/2005 13:20:39   
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our email by dial-up...
1 bit per second

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