One hope of the Web as articulated by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and many others along our journey was the retention of hypertext links and the content at the given site, even if obsolete, be retained. Dare I term this a living standard? Nah, too vague 😛

But I do have a major personal ask and while I myself destroyed my own blog on purpose years ago, lose ALL my Flickr photos in a mishap while suffering what has largely been a near year and a half of what appears to have been amnesia due to low blood oxygen

for nearly 2 years (except for a few very traumatic events I do remember, but more inaccurately than the inaccuracy of healthy human memory (and I have an otherwise very good memory whether short or long term) and that is there are interviews, recognitions, awards, blog posts,

videos, presentations, podcasts and such that show up in searches and are lost, forgotten, unavailable outside walled gardens or just also lost and not available insofar as I can find them with the exception of the occasional wayback/internet archive bits n' pieces.

Examples would include such things as Jared Spool's UIE related materials, The fab Jen Simmons and Eric Meyer's awesome cast Web Ahead/ Web Behind which I cannot find a single available recording of despite links galore, and many more I hope you will help me find and/or remember.

I would like to collect as much work and joy as the Web and the people whose work was terrific and who somehow found me a worthy participant. It is my intent to post links on either a new personal small set of pages or via social media as a personal and friendship memorial.

This will be the only memorial instigated by me, as I will have no funeral, no formal memorial, and while folks who want to remember me can do so anyway they wish, it is this one gathering of work and friendship online that I care to share publicly after my passing.