Where Do Deleted Files Go?

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MUSIC BY: http://www.YouTube.com/JakeChudnow

final song is "Midnight Sound" by Gareth Johnson / David O'Brien
from: http://www.audionetwork.com

Lost silent films: http://www.silentera.com/lost/index.html

Wonders of the Ancient World: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S....even_Wonders_of_the_

What have we lost forever?

http://ask.metafilter.com/8051....7/What-have-we-lost-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_history

snapchat: http://www.snapchat.com/

Lenin and Trotsky doctored photos: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hick008....8/classes/csci_2101/

Archived person-removal-service site: http://web.archive.org/web/200....60212134125/http://w

Google Ngram tool: http://books.google.com/ngrams

links to info about digital file deletion:

http://www.reddit.com/r/YouSho....uldKnow/comments/1e4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_erasure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_sector
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_erasure

Melanie Willhide glitched photos (NSFW): http://www.slate.com/blogs/beh....old/2013/01/09/melan

Electronic waste dumps in Africa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agbogbloshie

Paper-shredding: http://www.slate.com/articles/....news_and_politics/ex

UNSHREDDER: http://www.unshredder.com/www/....407/1001127/default.

Iranian reassembly of documents: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16036967

HEAT DEATH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H....eat_death_of_the_uni

HEAT DEATH button on etsy: http://www.etsy.com/listing/58....392676/ask-me-about-

entropy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy

"The Last Question" by Issac Assimov: http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-question/

bleached flags on moon: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/Ap....olloFlags-Condition.