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I mean, this isn't all that surprising. Not unlike buying a twenty-year-old visitor's guide to a city and finding that a number of the shops and restaurants hav
by littleweep 9y ago
I mean, this isn't all that surprising. Not unlike buying a twenty-year-old visitor's guide to a city and finding that a number of the shops and restaurants have closed, the stadiums have different names, etc.
- jacquesm 9y agoI don't know about that. People tend to think that our society is very well documented but if you look at what is left of old societies it is usually whatever was engraved in stone or if you're lucky what remained on paper. With the internet replacing most or even all of the paper storage in the short term it is true (besides our present day paper not being acid free to last long enough anyway), we are better documented than ever. But in the longer term it may be a huge gaping hole in history. And that's different than cities changing at their regular pace and books becoming less dated. It's like the visitor guide itself is no longer readable and therefore you won't even know what was there in the past.
- notfromhere 9y agoThis is more like discovering streets don't exist or don't go anywhere anymore
- nitwit005 9y agoIn a way it's convenient. The URLs fail instantly. Trying to find things referenced by an old book can be pretty painful.
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- DanBC 9y agoBut cool URLs don't change.
- virusduck 9y agoKnoxville! Knoxville! Knoxville!