Yeah, but books were always intentional works of art in which a lot of thought goes into them. Newspapers would at best record public interviews or press conferences but even then they would often paraphrase. Admit it, casual speech recorded for posterity is a weird feature of modern life.
Public utterances from the CEO's of billion dollar companies historically landed in newspapers or archives so I don't see how it is accurate to say that this sort of speech was somehow ephemeral in the past.
Newspapers didn't have a full text search index.
No, they only ended up in newspapers when they were news at the time.
They always threatened in school 'this will go down on your permanent record', and then we went ahead and built one.
Sure but it’s a weird feature he developed for profit. Odd that he is excluded but we aren’t.
You can delete your old posts if you find them embarrassing.
Nonsense. You can flag them as embarrassing and hope for the best. They are not deleted. If you think they are actually deleted nothing I or anyone else says can help you, I'm sorry.
I think they stop appearing in the public record, which is the thing people are talking about in this thread.