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Spiegel: The internet's permanence originated from expensive disk-drive overwrite costs
“One of the reasons why everything was saved forever is because hard drives, disk-based hard drives, right, were expensive to write over. And so it was actually more expensive to go back and write over something enough to delete it than it was to just leave it …”
Evan Spiegel Apr 12, 2026 ▶ 12:15 Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
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