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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 20:43:26 JST Aral Balkan

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   • Maarten Steenhagen

   @msteenhagen One way is to try and get folks to maintain older versions of their sites.

   It’s trivial to do if one cares any that sort of thing. But I have a feeling the issue is the qualifier in that statement. In a world of disposable “startups”, I don’t think many people do.

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     Maarten Steenhagen (msteenhagen@provo.lol)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 20:43:28 JST Maarten Steenhagen

     Link rot is so very, very real.

     I just visited a site that 'archives' articles from 2015. The majority of links no longer works.

     What to do? You could archive pages, and link to the archived pages (I've seen many people do this). But how durable is that? Will those archival sites exist still in 10 years time?

     I'm used to consult books that are centuries old. That we're unable now to archive digital stuff for longer than a couple of years is terrifying. #archives #digitalhumanities