Digital Hoarding- An Essay
Earlier, there were hardcopies. Floppies and hard disks held onto for dear life. Although pen drives, hard disks and the like are still widely used, a sense of relief lies among the general population. The internet made things faster. It also brought the ends of the world very close together. One other crucial thing it did for the data we make of ourselves is that it made everything lighter. It made it possible to digitize the solid, decaying, mould or silverfish ridden memorabilia or collect any new already digital objects to put safely in the world wide web forever. The internet stands like a vast vaporous giant, ever generous and ready to scoop up anything that falls on it. It’s almost eerie actually, the way it takes the smallest bits of information you generate and preserves it for posterity, even if you might not know that it is still out there. The clouds have come up! Big puffy volunteers of Master Internet, looming on all corners, casting huge murky shadows on the ground....
