Reply #8: He has always covered up the reality of his "past" -- [View All]

[LdyGuique]

No one else posted the photos or registered the domains -- He did. As for past, I consider that something down a decade or two ago to be in one's misguided "past" -- not something from a year ago.

Just as anything posted online has a chance of being recoverable by someone in the future, it's wise to maintain a certain element of decorum in how one behaves.

UUNET was archived by Deja Vu, which then sold it to Google -- everything posted online within UUNET Newsgroups is theorectically still available. Google caches website pages as part of its search engine offering -- hence why some of Gannon's stuff was viewable, even after he'd removed his website. As noted elsewhere on DU today, the Library of Congress' Minerva project is archiving website, especially those with interactive content.

True, we can always change our "nick" or pseudonym and walk away from our past, but many have maintained a particular pseudonym across many registrations on many sites over the years -- it has become our own unique persona and not something we've give up lightly. I'm LdyGuique all across the net. A Google search will bring up multiple hits that all tie to some site where I've registered or been active. Just as in real life, my full name is absolutely unique; so, is my online nick unique (unless someone else decides that they like it and uses it to register somewhere I don't go). But, for the most part, it represents me.

Just as the word banal contains anal, Gannon has a long way to go to being a worthy media member or journalist. He has yet to learn to write under any of this nicks nor to express unique and original opinions. Until then, his past will haunt him, whether it's banal or anal.