"One of my enduring concerns about services like Tumblr and Twitter (as well as the internet on the whole) is this phenomenon I like to call the “permanent present”, a historical term borrowed from the great Eric Hobsbawm. The internet, despite these unbelievable tools at our disposal (Google, The Internet Archive, etc), seems to have the collective cultural memory of a housefly: posts at once appear and then vanish in almost the same instant. The surroundings feel increasingly hostile to the thoughtful, the iterative, and, ultimately, the artful."

Matt Langer, after I revisited my Why I Love the Internet post.