Ephemerality in Fandom

When I was a teen, I was always worried about preserving the content I had on my computer, whether it be texts I wrote, or music I downloaded, or a random funny video I found somewhere. Most of my friends didn’t understand this urge; there was this misplaced faith that those things would simply always be there, available at any point in time.

I've done the idiotic thing of deleting files here and there, under the thought of "I can always redownload it later", only to find out in that much anticipated later that those files were nowhere to be found.

Years later, and a lot of those things lost to time and moving and deletion and misplaced floppy disks/cds/pen drives, my interest in preserving things has been reignited.

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