Among the things it is very difficult
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2025 3:43 am
to do is attend your own funeral. You don’t get to stand among the mourners and hear their thoughts, and to find out what about you mattered to them, and what difference you made over the course of them knowing you.
You don’t hear the proclamations, the dedications, the thoughts about what inspirations and warnings your life held.
But in October, we did.
There is, naturally, an entire ecosystem dedicated to taking e-commerce photo editing about sites like the Archive being down and stretching them into 30 minute presentations, and there are articles and editorials about any events of note online.
But during this period of weeks, we also got to see the conversations, statements and posts of long-time users, who otherwise would not have communicated about their relationship with the holdings and offerings they’d used for so long.
You don’t hear the proclamations, the dedications, the thoughts about what inspirations and warnings your life held.
But in October, we did.
There is, naturally, an entire ecosystem dedicated to taking e-commerce photo editing about sites like the Archive being down and stretching them into 30 minute presentations, and there are articles and editorials about any events of note online.
But during this period of weeks, we also got to see the conversations, statements and posts of long-time users, who otherwise would not have communicated about their relationship with the holdings and offerings they’d used for so long.