Funding for archival services is hardly politics. Commenters anywhere are going to bring up “the good old days” in relation to anything. This is called “being

Funding for archival services is hardly politics. Commenters anywhere are going to bring up “the good old days” in relation to anything. This is called “being human.” Your personal conclusion doesn’t fit the facts presented in the article: stuff disappears because it is not maintained. Dead links are such an issue that there are businesses who are paid to watch out for dead links in websites and determine whether the target is actually gone, has moved to a new URL or is just temporarily missing. Businesses like “Link Alarm” aren’t politics, they are just dealing with reality.