Favour Amoye

As early as eight in the morning, the fishermen in Marseille begin their daily bargain with the sea. On the Quai de la Fraternité, under the pale shine of the Vieux-Port, fishermen lay out the night’s catch on wet tables. What graces those tables are the sights of red mullet, sardines, sea bream, monkfish, sole, mackerel, sometimes rascasse if the weather has been kind.

[polska wersja językowa poniżej] For some, it is not only cliché to say that  “the internet is forever”, as it is also comforting. But that sentence is a lie. Links break, websites vanish, files get lost, and the machines that hold our photos and memes end up as trash in someone else’s backyard. This slow crumble of the online world is what many people now call “digital decay”. It is the fading, breaking, and rotting of the systems that keep the web alive.