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I was recently digging through my old blog's archives, and it was appalling how many URLs from the early 2000s have completely disappeared, despite the fact tha
by zeveb 10y ago
I was recently digging through my old blog's archives, and it was appalling how many URLs from the early 2000s have completely disappeared, despite the fact that the sites which served them remain — and gratifying when I was able to reload some fringe resource from 1998 or 2003.
The Web is about webs of durable readable content, not about ephemeral walled-garden apps.
- ljk 10y ago> The Web is about webs of durable readable content, not about ephemeral walled-garden apps. Facebook is the worst at this. They even require you to have an account and log in to read a public-facing community/restaurant fb page
- _puk 10y agoUnfortunately GitHub seems to be pretty guilty of this too. Lost count of the number of times I've clicked a link in a blog post only to end up with a GitHub 404; I'm sure it is only going to get worse. Most annoying thing with that one is usually simply going to GitHub search and putting in the original 404'd repo name turns up the one I want. I'm sure having the 404 serve up a "did you mean" search result would solve the issue for the most part.
- marssaxman 10y agoI would say "was supposed to be", not "is", but would otherwise agree.