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Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web
25 days ago
- Pew Research Center found 38% of 2013 webpages and 25% of 2013-2023 sampled pages are now inaccessible.
- Wayback Machine rescues about 15% of otherwise dead pages, reducing vanished URLs from 25% to 10% in Pew's dataset.
- Studies show increasing link rot, but web archives like Wayback Machine mitigate loss by archiving and rescuing dead content.
Download Everything
15 hours ago
- Online platforms are increasingly walled gardens requiring login, which limits reach and causes content to disappear.
- Linkrot is prevalent: even popular articles vanish quickly, disproving the myth that online content lasts forever.
- Use tools like Linkding to take snapshots and self-host content to avoid relying on temporary archives.
- Digital ownership is often illusory (e.g., Sony), so actively preserve your own content using POSSE and markdown/git storage.

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