Where Do Deleted Files Go?

Vsauce July 20, 2013
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Follow Michael Stevens for neat things every day! http://www.Twitter.com/tweetsauce LINKS AND SOURCES BELOW 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/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Ancient_World What have we lost forever? http://ask.metafilter.com/80517/What-have-we-lost-forever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_history snapchat: http://www.snapchat.com/ Lenin and Trotsky doctored photos: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hick0088/classes/csci_2101/false.html Archived person-removal-service site: http://web.archive.org/web/20060212134125/http://www.digital-restoration.com/unwanted.asp Google Ngram tool: http://books.google.com/ngrams links to info about digital file deletion: http://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/1e4p7g/ysk_how_deletion_works_on_a_computer_and_why/ 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/behold/2013/01/09/melanie_willhide_to_adrian_rodriguez_with_love_photos.html Electronic waste dumps in Africa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agbogbloshie Paper-shredding: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2009/07/unshreddable.html UNSHREDDER: http://www.unshredder.com/www/407/1001127/default.asp Iranian reassembly of documents: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16036967 HEAT DEATH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe HEAT DEATH button on etsy: http://www.etsy.com/listing/58392676/ask-me-about-the-heat-death-of-the 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/ApolloFlags-Condition.html

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