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<p>Content pass: encyclopedic seed/expansion</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;&quot;The Internet never forgets&quot;&#039;&#039;&#039; is a common saying about the persistence of digital traces—screenshots, search-indexed posts, and archived pages—even after authors delete or regret them. It sits in tension with empirical [[Link rot]]: much of the web &#039;&#039;does&#039;&#039; disappear, yet copies in search caches, mirrors, and the [[Wayback Machine]] can outlive the original.<br /> <br /> ==Cultural use==<br /> The phrase appears in privacy debates, meme culture, and journalism about old posts resurfacing. Foreverpedia treats it as a folk theory of [[Cultural memory]] online: psychologically salient permanence, technically uneven.<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[Link rot]]<br /> * [[Web archiving]]<br /> * [[Screenshot culture]]<br /> * [[Permanence]]<br /> <br /> ==Sources==<br /> * Popular technology commentary on digital permanence vs deletion.<br /> * Contrast with Pew Research Center (2024) link-rot findings.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Internet culture]]<br /> [[Category:Cultural memory]]<br /> [[Category:Concepts]]</div>

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