Digital rot

An article, posted more than 9 years ago filed in digital, analog, film, instagram, polaroid, history, culture, software, data & harddrive.
Digital rot

A few years ago I created, together with some other green-party members, a website: bodemlozeputten.nl. It was a small local website aimed to make voters aware of all the money that was thrown after bad in that region. Like reopening an airport that has never been able to run profitably even in times when the state was still subsidising it with its military presence. Or the amount of money spent by the local municipalities on land, which had by then already created huge debts for several municipalities and still hasn't turned out to be a profitable for neither the citizens, the local economy, nor the municipalities themselves. It was a small website, hosted at the free hosting option that Heroku offered. And a few days ago I received an email that I should've spent more attention to an issue with this website that I kind of neglected. And now the website is showing an error message: "Application error". And while [it is not rea…

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