I Bought a Book of Restaurant Recommendations from 1957 and None of them would Serve Me Dinner Any More
I bought a telephone book from 1942 and none of the phone numbers work
I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
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Re: I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
#42Re: I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
#43Man, I really miss FTP. I remember when you would just FTP to the site you were using and grab a binary from their /pub/. Mirrors were plentiful, and FXP could distribute files without needing a shell on a file server.
I miss that "UH-OH" sound from WS_FTP
Re: I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
#44The solution to link rot (and to privacy invasion) is to download the internet.
Could you please clarify?
Re: I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
#45I miss the optimism of the early web, when you could create a simple web page, join a web ring and going online was an event.
It's richer and deeper now, but the rawness and simpleness of it all was enjoyable and novel.
Re: I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
#46Related to this, I had trouble finding examples of pre 1996 web design. The internet archive has a lot from 1997 onwards. The oldest live examples of sites from that era, that I know of are: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/T... http://oreilly.com/gnn/gnnhome.html http://www.trincoll.edu/zines/tj/tj12.02.93/tjcontents.html The BBC also donated its Networking Club to the Internet Archive: htt…
If you want to go all the way back, UNC still hosts ibiblio.org, which has links to the first website at CERN http://info.cern.ch/ and TBL's first page.
Re: I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
#47Solution: https://ipfs.io > The average lifespan of a web page is 100 days. Remember GeoCities? The web doesn't anymore. It's not good enough for the primary medium of our era to be so fragile. > IPFS provides historic versioning (like git) and makes it simple to set up resilient networks for mirroring of data.
IPFS is good and useful, but it only retains what people choose to retain.
If geocities.com/aoeu isn't popular, then IPFS won't store it unless someone bothered to pin it. And as soon as they stop, it'll disappear.
You need a dedicated host (like archive.org) to retain it, or volunteers willing to coordinate and commit their resources. Otherwise it's just more resilient (a good thing), but not permanent.
Re: I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
#48I Bought a Book of Restaurant Recommendations from 1957 and None of them would Serve Me Dinner Any More
I bought a telephone book from 1942 and none of the phone numbers work
The phone numbers accompanying the phat 90s slang scrawled across my 1996 yearbook no longer are a way of contacting my old classmates.
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#49I have been wanting to find or build a tool that checked if a link was dead before redirecting my browser. If the link turned out dead, just redirect to the appropriate internet archive[0] link. Problem somewhat solved as long as the archive doesn't go bust.
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#50I mean, this isn't all that surprising. Not unlike buying a twenty-year-old visitor's guide to a city and finding that a number of the shops and restaurants have closed, the stadiums have different names, etc.
In a way it's convenient. The URLs fail instantly. Trying to find things referenced by an old book can be pretty painful.