Do Web Pages Last Forever?
Hello, everyone! Long time no see. 2020 was five whole years ago!
I failed my mission. I am now 22 years old. Letâs talk about that. Thisâll be balls to the wall rambling, but I have always wanted to confess this. I just didnât know the right time. It was deeply embarrassing to me. However, my computer is in for repairs, whatever I saved might be lost to me.
Flash being discontinued was a devastating loss for archival purposes. And five whole years ago, I was a teenager. I was 17, and wanting to save something that was important to me, an autistic teenager didnât want to handle the change and was scared itâd be lost forever.
Unfortunately, being 17, I didnât exactly have a⊠plan. It was honestly a little exciting, I literally just made the Mod Raffina moniker to be cool. I thought the anonymous mod thing would make me focus. It didnât.
My mental health makes me very forgetful, especially about who I am as a person, and five whole years ago was five whole years ago. So I do not remember my journey here at all. Only bits and pieces. I may as well be a different person. So riddled with executive dysfunction after my initial burst? I let the blog go. I always wanted to return, always wanted to spread my special interest, but the executive dysfunction always won. I donât have an answer for this. Iâve been wanting to write this for five years now. Itâs only now that Iâm in computer hot water.
I also didnât understand archival. I never backed up my files. Never put them in a different place. Possibly a USB, if memory serves, but I donât remember where I put it. I only knew how to save PNGs, really. I wasnât serious about archival, even though I tried to be for the brief time I did so.
What does that mean for this blog?
Well, nothing, really. I will keep this blog up until the last possible moment. Whether tumblr blows up, my main blows up, or we all get sent to an alternate dimension where little girls blast you with magic powers and squishy slimes. The same with the YouTube I donât believe I ever promoted. Um. Oops. Gosh. Look at that description. âArenât very tech savvyâ No, little Mod Raffina. You donât have a credit card.
So I want to thank actual archivists. Flashpoint for actually saving the games. And @puyopreservation for being actually serious about this to this day. Thank you for helping little autistic me back in the day. I hope, however how brief and little, I was able to help you back.
So, weâll meet on our spacetime journey another day, Puyo fans. I hope this blog helped out.
âMod Raffina, @heavenlysphere.
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