Reply To: Software: On & Off the Web

On moving down to the South Coast around 2K joined up with this ISP and dropped them in 2007 for some reason, probably cost. The next provider was gotalk, and left them in 2010 as the service delivery dropped when they were taken over with focus more to mobile plans. Thus the provided email addresses also got nixed, these days it gets interesting when using one of those to sign in entities such as Scribd where upon there returns something like:

Check Your Email: To protect your account, we’ve sent a verification email to oldEmail@gone.com. Please click the link in that email to verify your identity. To learn more, please visit our FAQs.
Didn’t receive an email? Check your spam folder, or send again.
Not the correct email? Use a different email address

Not the correct email means signing up for a new account, so any info stored with the old one is lost, thus contacting them is the last resort, which by the looks of that page doesn’t help too much. What ever happened to webmaster or admin @suchandsuch.com?
History on the web is changing too, when Google stopped caching pages, there is now more encumbrance on IA than ever before. Did sign up with Furl way back, will anything like that come back again?
Also had an account with Shelfari, IIRC there never was a merging of accounts into Goodreads, understandable of course if there were millions of them.