>The overall bent is a hand-wringing about link rot, which I thought we mostly got over a decade ago. The Internet is fundamentally ephemeral. If you see someth

>The overall bent is a hand-wringing about link rot, which I thought we mostly got over a decade ago. The Internet is fundamentally ephemeral. If you see something you like, save it so you can repost it later. If you rely on someone else to keep in up indefinitely, you're being foolish. Did we? Should we? Acknowledging the current state of affairs doesn't require accepting its flawed nature. Imagine a world where gasp the BBC, NYTimes, etc. kept all versions of their articles available and online. Where the "pretty URL" shows the most recent version of a page, provides a permalink, and provides permalinks to all previous versions of a page. I don't expect most sites to do this, but since someone else mentioned the BBC, I am targeting journalism as an example.