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Good idea. One of the ideas in Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was unbreakable links. The problem on the WWW is that you don't always get a 404. Sometimes the
by DonaldFisk 10y ago
Good idea. One of the ideas in Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was unbreakable links.
The problem on the WWW is that you don't always get a 404. Sometimes the original web site goes up for sale and you end up with something like this: http://www.strictlybowhunting.com/Anov01issue/crows.htm http://www.strictlybowhunting.com/Anov01issue/crows.htm which is not a 404. It would have to recognize that as being equivalent to a 404 and serve up the archive.org page anyway.
Ideally, a URL should allow the option of including a date.
- slrz 10y agoMan, do I hate that crap. Oracle is another ugly example. After buying Sun, some genius there apparently thought that it's OK to break tons of links all over the web (and in Usenet archives, etc.), redirecting them to the fucking generic Oracle front page. Nothing spells out "fuck you" quite as clearly as breaking thousands of hyperlinks overnight.
- dublinben 10y agoEven better are content-addressable hashes, which will always point to the correct information, no matter what.