You can almost imagine the look of shock and awe when my retired parents had the nerdy neighbor kid over to look at their computer (was having internet issues) and he stumbled upon 30,000 movie rips, probably 8,000 TV series, complete rom/iso sets from Atari 2600 to PS2…

Video game manuals. And I’m making them digital so they aren’t lost to time. What’s out there now is such low quality- but at the time (1995-2010) was “good enough” because “it’s something”.

People who want to be forgotten deserve to be forgotten, usually. But data is data. Once it’s “out there”, the only thing you control is your response to it.