I was not blogging for some time. In the meantime, both Gfycat and Koji have been acquired, and their services shut down.

These two occurrences reminded me the ephemerality of life on the internet again. A struggle against it does require being proactive. As I have learned with a harsh lesson, Internet Archive’s fights against this decay is a cornerstone of modern internet. Even though you can rely on it to save the old web to an amber, internet technologies are a mobile target. You cannot trust it to revive the mosquito within it. As we require ruffle to replay flash games, we need tools to deal with the intricacies of the modern web.