Can you tell me what URL means?

I'll give you a hint: it stands for *Uniform Resource Locator*.
Knowing the URL of a resource, you can query the internet for it.
Generally, this exchange directly involves two parties: you and the
computer with the file. First you ask, then you receive. Simple, right?

Here is the catch (a critical bug which I posit has no patch): what if the
server is off? Knowing the URL doesn't do you a damn bit of good if the
server is off.

Well, why would the server be off? Here two possibilites:

- Server is turned off temporarily

- Server is turned off forever / has been moved to a recycling facility

The first is unfortunate. The second is a critical bug which any respecting
Sysop would patch. Here's the idea:

When someone likes something on your website, they share it with friends and
post it on the Internet. When your server goes off, that link no longer
provides any use; context is destroyed, in short, the Internet vocabulary is
one word shorter.

But why should it matter? Are you some white-knight of Internet entropy? No!
But you have some self-respect, right? Why did you make your site to start
with? Was it:

- Personal?
- Professional?
- For your *business*?

If you answered last, there's no reason to turn your server back on: in my
eyes, the Internet is for *natural*, not *legal* persons. When
your legal person has run out of money and dissolved, commited *legal
person suicide by method of bankruptcy*, that's final. Unfortunate, but
still nonetheless final.

If you answered either of the other two: I'm not sure what you're hoping to
do by turning your server off. I've thought for a long time about turning
mine off; why would I, now, encourage you (me) to not? The answer is this:

We virtual architects can be the victim of a temperamental spirit. Our
work, virtual-reality, 20XX is created on-line. When you write here, you are
no longer, but your virtual-reality endymion is created and breathed life;
only here! It is cursed to never earth-walk but to be on-line. So
let the VIRTUAL SELF stay on-line and waste the time away: there are two days
in every one for you pair.