Did you genuinely interpret that as a child to mean "If you put something on the Internet will be safe forever"?
As I'm sure you are now aware as an adult, the intended meaning is very much "If you put something on the Internet which is embarrassing to you or damaging to your reputation, _then_ it will be around forever"
It's a warning that the things you don't want to stick around could end up being precisely the things which do.
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Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet gaming history -
Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet gaming historyWe have all got very accustomed to the notion that we can put content on a website and it will stay there forever, permanently available, as if that site somehow has an obligation to look after it. But they don't. It sucks, and there will be a lot of stuff lost, but it's also good to have a reminder that if there's data you really care about, you need to look after that data yourself. -
Valve's monthly survey reveals that almost 45% of Steam users on PC are still using Windows 10 even with the sword of Damocles hanging over themRevert then. This is exactly what Microsoft are counting on, that people will simply go "oh well" and just carry on with Windows 11, because any effort needed to move away is too much effort. Prove them wrong. Stand up for yourself.