Where Do Deleted Files Go?

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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/Seven_Wo...

What have we lost forever?

http://ask.metafilter.com/80517/What-...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_his...

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

Lenin and Trotsky doctored photos: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hick0088/class...

Archived person-removal-service site: http://web.archive.org/web/2006021213...

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

links to info about digital file deletion:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_era...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_sector
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_e...

Melanie Willhide glitched photos (NSFW): http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/201...

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

Paper-shredding: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_an...

UNSHREDDER: http://www.unshredder.com/www/407/100...

Iranian reassembly of documents: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16...

HEAT DEATH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_dea...

HEAT DEATH button on etsy: http://www.etsy.com/listing/58392676/...

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

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

bleached flags on moon: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ApolloFla...