Abandoned Empires
| Category: Free Services | Date: 2002-12-23 |
Ever wonder what happens to all of those free sites, free auto-responders, free affiliate links and everything else once they are abandoned and forgotten.
You and I are probably both guilty of creating and abandoning a lot of auto-responders, free sites, etc., if you have been online for any length of time as I have.
It does happen.
Years ago folks bought things to last a lifetime. A good watch is an example. Now, we can get a watch in a cereal box that keeps better time, and when it quits you just throw it away and get another one.
Not all that is abandoned is free. Many sites and services that were bought have been abandoned too. There are many abandoned empires lying around the net.
An area that I havent even touched on is that of SPAM. There is a topic that adds a great deal to this potential problem that we have dealt with in previous articles.
As we change to new computers, change email addresses, ISPS, and web hosts, we lose contact with a lot of things we have created and maintained. The normal flow of email reminders that it even exists is now cut off.
What happens to all of that junk ?
I mean, its not like there is a cyberspace junk patrol that comes by, cleans up our "mess" and discards it. At least, I dont think that such a service exists.
So does all of that stuff must just keep floating around in cyberspace forever?
If so, Seems as if eventually it would begin to *plog up* things. Someone would stumble across some of it just by accident and say, "Hey, who left this lying here?"
This may be a new opportunity for some enterprising entrepreneur. You could create a new service that specializes in cleaning up all of that Cyber Junk that has just been cluttering up the internet for several years now. Hmmm....?
Or, perhaps cyberspace is infinite. There is no end to the junk we can leave out there and it wont make a dent in the greater picture.
Larry Johnson, author
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You and I are probably both guilty of creating and abandoning a lot of auto-responders, free sites, etc., if you have been online for any length of time as I have.
It does happen.
Years ago folks bought things to last a lifetime. A good watch is an example. Now, we can get a watch in a cereal box that keeps better time, and when it quits you just throw it away and get another one.
Not all that is abandoned is free. Many sites and services that were bought have been abandoned too. There are many abandoned empires lying around the net.
An area that I havent even touched on is that of SPAM. There is a topic that adds a great deal to this potential problem that we have dealt with in previous articles.
As we change to new computers, change email addresses, ISPS, and web hosts, we lose contact with a lot of things we have created and maintained. The normal flow of email reminders that it even exists is now cut off.
What happens to all of that junk ?
I mean, its not like there is a cyberspace junk patrol that comes by, cleans up our "mess" and discards it. At least, I dont think that such a service exists.
So does all of that stuff must just keep floating around in cyberspace forever?
If so, Seems as if eventually it would begin to *plog up* things. Someone would stumble across some of it just by accident and say, "Hey, who left this lying here?"
This may be a new opportunity for some enterprising entrepreneur. You could create a new service that specializes in cleaning up all of that Cyber Junk that has just been cluttering up the internet for several years now. Hmmm....?
Or, perhaps cyberspace is infinite. There is no end to the junk we can leave out there and it wont make a dent in the greater picture.
Larry Johnson, author
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