It’s a modern day tragedy. I was browsing wikipedia this week when I just happened to check out the entry for my favourite blogger Jeff Atwood. I was shocked and dismayed to discover that the entry has been deleted - Mr Atwood has been deemed as being too trivial. In the tawdry old real world Jeff’s star seems very much in the ascendant with the release of the programmer’s wiki-portal stackoverflow (very much worth a browse). Sadly things appear not to be going so well for him online.
So whatever next for Jeff? Will all his blog posts be erased? Will his facebook account be defaced? Will his twitter tweets be expunged? Will all signs of his online life be purged from the Internet? It will be worse than online death. It will be obliteration. It will be extinction. It will be like he never existed at all. He will just be left with that shallow, dreary existence we have come to call the real world. What a truly tragic fate for a truly geeky man.
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It is quite possibly the saddest moment in all of recorded human history.
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