If you are reading this, then this blog is no more.
It is dead. Done. But will always be here. As long as the internet has sympathy for it.
However, there will be no more new content on this blog after this day.
This is the last post.
It's already old.
But it will be forever. New.
Don't come back expecting anything more than is posted here already.
Static. Henceforth.
In a way, this blog will never cease to be new.
For the person viewing this post for the first time it is new. And if this is the first post they've read, then everything else, all prior postings, will also be new. Old content, made new again by being seen for the first time.
This blog has brought new content to the web. And it won't do that anymore.
At one point this blog was a machine. A factory. A center of production. Now it is an archive.
But what a blog produces is archives. Each post is instantly an archive. They are not dynamic. They do not change.
To talk about what a blog was is getting nowhere. Because what a blog was it still is, but merely with more on top of what was. Everything that WAS, still IS. All the previous posts are still there. This post is still here now. In a sense, what a blog was, is what a blog is. There is no NOW. Just a THEN. Just a record accessed now of what WAS THEN. Records with no tangible evidence of age other than timestamps. How do you KNOW that this whole thing didn't pop into existence one day? Maybe you read this blog and followed along each week. But if you are accessing it for the first time right now, how do you know this whole thing, each post, didn't pop into existence mere seconds before you opened the URL in your browser window?
Thanks for making me real.
NOW,
It is dead. Done. But will always be here. As long as the internet has sympathy for it.
However, there will be no more new content on this blog after this day.
This is the last post.
It's already old.
But it will be forever. New.
Don't come back expecting anything more than is posted here already.
Static. Henceforth.
In a way, this blog will never cease to be new.
For the person viewing this post for the first time it is new. And if this is the first post they've read, then everything else, all prior postings, will also be new. Old content, made new again by being seen for the first time.
This blog has brought new content to the web. And it won't do that anymore.
At one point this blog was a machine. A factory. A center of production. Now it is an archive.
But what a blog produces is archives. Each post is instantly an archive. They are not dynamic. They do not change.
To talk about what a blog was is getting nowhere. Because what a blog was it still is, but merely with more on top of what was. Everything that WAS, still IS. All the previous posts are still there. This post is still here now. In a sense, what a blog was, is what a blog is. There is no NOW. Just a THEN. Just a record accessed now of what WAS THEN. Records with no tangible evidence of age other than timestamps. How do you KNOW that this whole thing didn't pop into existence one day? Maybe you read this blog and followed along each week. But if you are accessing it for the first time right now, how do you know this whole thing, each post, didn't pop into existence mere seconds before you opened the URL in your browser window?
Thanks for making me real.
NOW,
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