Match group (owners of nearly every dating site and app) are very likely to endure 50 years, and they are, afaik, 100% internet company, plug it off and they disappear without a trace
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Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 1 month agoI guess it is hard to imagine abb internet cilantro laying that long mostly because the hasn’t been around that long, it’s only been 31 31 years since it went public. A year later Amazon was formed. I would bet money Amazon and Google easily make it to 50. Along with many many others.
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xantoxis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Google is actually the sine qua non of what I’m talking about. I’ll concede that it’s possible Google as a corporate entity will still exist in 2048 (it was founded in 1998). But Google has undergone such a drastic and dystopian management change that it’s almost not even the same company now–
–but that isn’t relevant to what I’m actually talking about, which is the products. The proposition that Slack logs would still be around 50 years from now was what catalyzed my quip. Google kills everything it makes, usually quickly. Will we be able to look at Google Reader logs in 2048? Or–even closer to the target–Google Wave logs? Google Podcasts? Google Stadia? (I could go on.)
At the end of the day it was just a quip, but I fully expect the SaaS companies you currently think of as indestructible titans to be on the dustheap of history in 20 years, let alone 50.
Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t think the actual logs on slack will go away. Just maybe hosted on a different server owned by a different corporation.
frostysauce@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They will live on as AI training data.