@papalonian@possiblylinux127 They say the internet never forgets, but still... An overwhelming percentage of content on the internet will be lost to time, because websites die constantly and most things aren't archived. It's also yet to be seen if archive sites like archive.org survive or not.
Individual websites come and go, yes, but COVID literally dominated every and all aspects of everyday life for the better part of 2020. It's like saying that everyone is gonna forget that WWII happened because most of the newspapers from the time have stopped running.
Not at all. You still see "mask required" signs that just haven't been taken down. There's wedding pictures. Every professional photographer was taking masked photos because for a year or two, many companies would only publish masked photos in certain contexts.... They will find the pictures for the history books.
I worked for a company that started manufacturing masks (the N95 ones) during the pandemic and we still make and sell masks. I won't be forgetting since I still work on the machines.
People will forget - like we eventually forget about everything - but the information doesn't have to disappear from the internet.
Have a website, blog, etc? Write about your experience, what you saw other people doing, the reactions, what politicians did, what you felt, etc. Archive the pages on the usual archival sites, so something lives on even after you die.
Just like some people went back to read what the newspapers wrote about the "Spanish" flu 100 years ago, someone is likely to get back to what we wrote/filmed/saved during this pandemic.
Facebook's shitty search ability, retribution against reddit, photobucket's apocalypse, dozens of site rebrandings, and the death of hundreds of other popular sites has proven posts on the internet are as temporary as paper. It only lasts if someone properly archives it, just as was the case with those 1919 newspaper articles.
You could post them on Wikimedia Commons with a free license to let anybody use them (giving you credits), so they would be preserved for the history of humankind.