Yeah, that’s the internet for you. Anything you want to stay around will vanish someday, and anything you want gone will be here forever.
We ultimately don’t know what is going to survive the digital revolution. I wonder what’s going to be lost to time and what historians and archeologists will be able to recover and view centuries or millennia in the future.
Shout-out to Archive.org for all the awesome work they do to backup what they can from the internet.
(Especially when some stack overflow answer to a question is just a link to some website that has either changed or no longer exists).
best website to use allongside wayback machine to see how websites looked back in the good ol days.
I learned this a while ago: If you find something interesting save it localy.
Saved this comment to notepad in My Documents, thank you 🙏
Would anyone expect that they were anyway?
Even if you consider
- sites getting bought up and rehosted elsewhere
- sites changing names
- personal throw-away WordPress sites
- sites for educational purposes made by the students themselves
- sites going bankrupt
- news site, social media channels closing down
Can’t see why this isn’t very natural, and I’m actually surprised it’s not higher if you consider how fast that field is moving.
I would be MORE surprised if they where still there.
One day we’ll know more about the Roman Empire than the early Web
2013: everything is flattened to oblivion (thanks, Apple)
2023: a quarter of the internet literally dies
Things are supposed to get better, not worse.
Things are getting better for like, 20 people.
I bet they’re all CEOs.
It’s a good thing I save a doc version of things/articles I find interesting online.
