{"id":752,"date":"2006-01-28T18:20:41","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T18:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/poof-goes-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:05:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:05:05","slug":"poof-goes-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/poof-goes-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Poof goes the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have gleefully embraced many new free internet based storage solutions and applications, including <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\">Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogger.com\">Blogger<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/writely.com\">Writely<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/furl.net\">Furl<\/a>.&nbsp; I have also touted them as signs of the revolution that will move us from reliance on our desktops.&nbsp; However, in the spirit of learning from mistakes, here is an example of what can happen when we rely so heavily on free internet applications and file storage that we don&#8217;t own or control.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I stumbled on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actkm.org\/2006\/01\/disappearing_km_groups\/\">this story<\/a> today that made me consider how I will use these services in the future.&nbsp; I am not a member of the Yahoo! Group in the story, but as a member of another Yahoo! Group, it does give me pause.&nbsp; It has certainly reminded me of the &#8220;here today \/ gone tomorrow&#8221; potential of any of these wonderful free tools. Where possible, it makes sense to backup content to the lowly desktop. I have already made several copies of my Furl data as I would lose hours and hours of internet surfing if I lost my account. While the ol&#8217; desktop may not be flashy, for now, it is more dependable. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have gleefully embraced many new free internet based storage solutions and applications, including Flickr, Blogger, Writely and Furl.&nbsp; I have also touted them as signs of the revolution that will move us from reliance on our desktops.&nbsp; However, in the spirit of learning from mistakes, here is an example of what can happen when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-technology-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3255,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/3255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}