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. Let’s talk about that. This’ll be balls to the wall rambling, but I have always wanted to confess this. I just didn’t 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 didn’t want to handle the change and was scared it’d be lost forever.
Unfortunately, being 17, I didn’t 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 didn’t.
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 don’t have an answer for this. I’ve been wanting to write this for five years now. It’s only now that I’m in computer hot water.
I also didn’t understand archival. I never backed up my files. Never put them in a different place. Possibly a USB, if memory serves, but I don’t remember where I put it. I only knew how to save PNGs, really. I wasn’t 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 don’t believe I ever promoted. Um. Oops. Gosh. Look at that description. “Aren’t very tech savvy” No, little Mod Raffina. You don’t 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, we’ll meet on our spacetime journey another day, Puyo fans. I hope this blog helped out.
—Mod Raffina, @heavenlysphere.
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