Describing my own writing that I accidentally misplaced before posting it anywhere as “lost media” because, you know, technically
This is the digital equivalent of the underside of a refrigerator.
Lotta folks in the notes trying to offer helpful suggestions who are clearly still in the stage of their life where they know where all of their archival storage media is physically located.
I give you this classic from bash.org’s Top IRC Quotes list:
There was a place I was doing on-site tech support for about fifteen years back that had a server that was acting up, but nobody knew where it was physically located, and a cable trace failed because the cat 5 disappeared under a baseboard and just plain never came out the other side. It was eventually determined that they’d somehow pulled a Cask of Amontillado: the door to the server closet had accidentally been drywalled over during some past renovation, and nobody noticed because the affected server had never gone off the rails badly enough to require physical servicing until just then.
