Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center: ❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible ❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link 🔗 www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20... - ThreadSky

archive.org • 289 days ago

Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center:
❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible
❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link
🔗 https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

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markshore.bsky.social•289 days ago

also, Google removing the public availability of cached versions of web pages suggests that an individual or organization could scrub a now-problematic item by replacing it with something else but keeping the same url

down10.bsky.social•289 days ago

I was outraged when I heard this. A huge betrayal of trust by Google.

gothamgirlblue.com•289 days ago

📌

maggy.kia.net•289 days ago

📌

annieoranne.bsky.social•289 days ago

📌

bluejacksky.bsky.social•289 days ago

Just an FYI...
https://www.reuters.com/legal/google-seeks-non-jury-trial-us-ad-tech-lawsuit-filing-says-2024-05-17/

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•289 days ago

This is like that dominos meme where the first one is "removing 'don't be evil' as the official motto and the last one is this headline

shrempsquid.bsky.social•279 days ago

I still miss https://nyanicorn.com.

fawcks.bsky.social•289 days ago

jenni4iowa.bsky.social•289 days ago

Link rot is real and it’s disastrous.

jenni4iowa.bsky.social•289 days ago

Relevant follow-up to this: "Interactives" on large media companies' websites do not translate well to archiving at ALL. I just tried to save a PDF of a story and half the information is missing. The text in the graphics is divorced from the graphical elements.

thejoyo.com•289 days ago

> Nearly one-in-five tweets are no longer publicly visible on the site just months after being posted. In 60% of these cases, the account that originally posted the tweet was made private, suspended or deleted entirely. In the other 40%, the account holder deleted the individual tweet

numb.comfortab.ly•289 days ago

Increasing number of webpages after 2023 are AI-generated garbage.

j3nindallas.bsky.social•288 days ago

Besides, that's where all the good porn goes to die.

wetasspword.bsky.social•289 days ago

Pedestrian numbers, let's get that to 100

hobolobo.bsky.social•288 days ago

@archive.org then don't exclude history from the archive just because the content on a website happens to be disagreeable to someone on your staff.

wudang96.bsky.social•289 days ago

I like the Wayback Machine ... and Sherman and Mr. Peabody, too.

I actually do go way, way, way, back. :-) https://wudang.com is ancient in internet years. And yes, I do have all my original code and multiple oh way too many versions. Hot Dog! (it was an editing tool)

inshadows.bsky.social•289 days ago

Mmm hot dog.
I did HomeSite!
Still have the licence keys for 4.5 somewhere.

wudang96.bsky.social•289 days ago

I have both. (grins)

inshadows.bsky.social•289 days ago

Will you be my HTML sister?

wudang96.bsky.social•289 days ago

sure

inshadows.bsky.social•289 days ago

blink back

fibonacci.bsky.social•289 days ago

I think I have competition! The oldest pages I have in the archive with my name to them are from April of '97. The school was cheap and I spent a lot of time in notepad consulting a printout of Werbach's "Bare Bones Guide to HTML".

kipwilliams.bsky.social•289 days ago

According to a piece of contemporary merchandise a friend of mine saw once, the proper spelling was WABAC, like UNIVAC and ENIAC and such. A good joke was lost.

kandah.bsky.social•289 days ago

the wayback machine is the only glimpse i have left of all the websites i spent days on during my childhood :(

shaidorsai.bsky.social•289 days ago

An acquaintance of mine broke into Hollywood when his web-based story was noticed by the studios. It was an experiential story told by the blog posts of various characters, and would be impossible to print, because of the necessity of the cross-linking in the story.

shrempsquid.bsky.social•279 days ago

Broke into Hollywood and... did what?

shaidorsai.bsky.social•278 days ago

Landed writing jobs, directed a movie, got an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. He's had a successful career thus far, and it was kicked off by his online story being sold to a studio (though IIRC the story itself was never developed further).

shrempsquid.bsky.social•278 days ago

oh

i thought you meant like

breaking an entering

ideasledgrowth.com•289 days ago

One of the most important things on the Internet. Thank you, @archive.org !

thirsty0ne.at•289 days ago

Probably because providers stopped supporting old php versions and stuff.

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