I was mulling it over in the tub before, and I realized that the internet is a very Dada thing. It's really interesting how some websites and blogs that owners can put years of their blood, sweat, and tears into can suddenly one day, just vanish off the face of the web. I was imagining my future children, and what if the man I marry's last name is Web. One of my favorite names for a girl is Penelope, and my favorite livejournal account I ever had was PenelopeWeb. Would she, one day, search whatever the current version of the internet is and find it, just by accident, looking for her name, or would it be gone? Would Livejournal even exist at that point, and what will the internet be in 15 years? 15 years ago I was 7 and the internet wasn't this huge imaginary ever wideneing place, that somehow seems to get smaller and smaller each day. The internet was Prodigy, and the mixed up make your own stories game.
I don't even think that exists now.
So in 15 years will we even have computers? What will they be like? And will Livejournal exist? Will Penelopeweb exist, and g33ksquared? Will PenelopeWeb stand strong as a chronicle of my early 20s? Or will it fade away into nothingness, forever making my past a matter of interpretation?
When will this all happen anyway? Gradually, I figure... but when will we start to notice the Red vs Blues, milkandcoookies, weebl-stuffs, et al., disappearing from the face of the internet?
And does that then make all that hard work and effort put into these projects that entertain people worldwide the creators may never know a Dadaist statement?
Fucking Dada.

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