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38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
(www.pewresearch.org)
this post was submitted on 20 May 2024
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The online era is going to be a thousand Library of Alexandria's worth of lost information, records, journals, news, ... everything. It will all just digital-rot into the memory hole.
And when trying to find a backup, no search engines can find it due to the AI garbage fucking up the SEO
Well put