Thursday, September 27, 2007

For Posterity

Can posts made earlier in a blog appreciate in value? No, no they can't. Even if they had value to begin with any copy would be virtually indistinguishable from the original. Furthermore there's no reliable way to date them, you have to take someone's word for it. For more unambiguous answers to rhetorical questions see this link. Unless this is the future and that link no longer goes anywhere. But if qwantz doesn't exist anymore then there must be much bigger problems in your crazy future dystopia. You should get to work on solving those before you comment on broken links.
Hey that brings me to a nice story on why this blog exists. Originally I wanted to blast someone for a comment they made on a friend's blog (my friend, not their friend). But then I thought that since I don't have a blog here to identify myself the comment might be interpreted as coming from him. Then when I thought further I realized that even making a new blog wouldn't really ensure he wouldn't be blamed, since he could in theory have just started a whole separate alternate identity in order to attack his detractors. That naturally started me thinking about the question of forging blog entries to invent a fictional past for this new blog, and when I realized I don't know how to do that I came up with the first paragraph. It should be possible though.
Anyway, long story short: I remembered I hate people who engage in petty internet battles and dropped the whole idea. Good story though, right? You know what you should do? Print this out, and then put it in like a time capsule or something so that hundreds of years from now carbon dating will verify that it is indeed a historic relic of the first post made to this blog. But only one person do that, otherwise all the copies will destroy its value on the future antique documents market.

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