> whereas this interactive webpage will surely disappear within a decade or two. If it disappears it will be because nobody kept it up. Not because your web br

> whereas this interactive webpage will surely disappear within a decade or two. If it disappears it will be because nobody kept it up. Not because your web browser is incapable of rendering them in a decade or two. An interactive webpage can be self-contained. It doesn’t have to load cross-origin resources, it can simply include them in the directory. And if it’s a scientific paper it should have no need to load data from external sources. An interactive scientific paper can absolutely be self-contained. Anyways back to the main topic, if it disappears in a decade or two it will be because nobody kept it up. For example if it was hosted on some random guy’s domain who eventually didn’t feel like hosting it anymore, etc. But even physical paper-format scientific papers aren’t just stored in random people’s garages, they are also archived by other organizations. So if archives like the library of congress kept their own copies, then you would expect the content to last as long as the library of congress (or other archives) would want them to.