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Network Solutions 100-year domain registration[1][1a] and Evernote's 100-Year Plan[2][2a].
1. https://www.networkworld.com/article/2332012/network-solutio...
2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeotoole/2014/11/13/evernote-...
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Take yourself back to 1960. Mankind has never once been to space, though there have been endless efforts to achieve such. The next year Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, Alan Shepherd follows shortly behind him. The following year the President gives a riveting speech about putting a man on the Moon. 7 years later, we land the first man on the Moon. And then do it repeatedly - to the point that dozens of m…
Yet 2023 is barely different from 2013.
Also, between 2010 and 2020, cancer death rates declined from 173 to 144 per 100,000 population, i.e. a 17% decrease in the US [1].
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/update-on-cancer-de...
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Lots of people read something called the New York Times today, but it’s not printed on the same hot metal typesetting machine they used in 1923 (or printed at all). Similarly it doesn’t seem too unlikely that people would be publishing on a platform called Wordpress in 2123. If there’s anything left of the original PHP code, it will probably have been transformed and rewritten many times over by AI because we already…
Weird argument, you're mixing things up. The NYT is a media property and a trademark, they can choose to deliver their content on any platform they want. Wordpress is one of such platforms to deliver content (like the hot metal typesetting machine). Other sites could still be around and ditch Wordpress for any other new platform that comes up. And GP would be horrified to think that 100 years from now, people would s…
Their platform is whatever they call “Wordpress”. In the same way, NYT on a phone app is conceptually the same NYT as the one printed in 1923, even if almost nothing in the production pipeline is the same.
Ponzi Scheme Any “forever” or “unlimited” are forms of a Ponzi scheme. Note: I not saying Wordpress is being malicious. I’m just saying that for the economics of a “forever” or “unlimited” to work, you need to find new money to offset the old costs - and a lot of really good companies have had to learn this lesson the hard way.
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just like unlimited yahoo mail space, or google's unlimited email space or that airline from 80's that took back through technicalities the "lifetime" ticket, no? I would not trust anything that's long term more than 10 years, and even that is a stretch. I agree with GP, it's a cash grab.
We don’t even have to go back to the 80s to find this kind of impermanence. When the war between Ukraine and Russia first started, energy prices in Europe skyrocketed, causing several utility companies to cancel their customers’ existing fixed-rate plans, to instead pass on all expenses.
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It’s like the Ford Edsel; WordPress is so wrapped up in their own technology and echo chamber that they won’t even see a better product coming to the market with features that customers are actually asking for. https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli
You're assuming that people want a static site. WordPress isn't just static sites.
It’s about using the latest cutting edge technology to build the best possible web application for uses.
“Best” as in; Perfect SEO, Simple theming, Fastest loading possible, Secure, Simple and affordable hosting, and so on.
WordPress is very dated, and they are very comfortable in their niche. The reason they maintain the market share that they do is because there just isn’t a better option for users currently.
But to address your static comment; It in my opinion that most most blog sites store static text that never changes in a database, and a backend server has to query for data and return it to the frontend.
This workflow seems a bit overly complex when I could just store the text in a document, and eliminate the need for a backend server or database.
The internet as we know it was created so that CERN could share static text documents with others. Why don’t we bring the web back to that?
> This reminds me of a café in Lausanne that started operations by selling lifetime, three-coffees-per-month subscriptions, and then after a year or so "management changed" and they annulled all subscriptions :D
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Weird argument, you're mixing things up. The NYT is a media property and a trademark, they can choose to deliver their content on any platform they want. Wordpress is one of such platforms to deliver content (like the hot metal typesetting machine). Other sites could still be around and ditch Wordpress for any other new platform that comes up. And GP would be horrified to think that 100 years from now, people would s…
The article is about Wordpress.com selling 100-year registrations. Their platform is whatever they call “Wordpress”. In the same way, NYT on a phone app is conceptually the same NYT as the one printed in 1923, even if almost nothing in the production pipeline is the same.
Wordpress is the technology, if it changes, it becomes something else.
That's the difference, explained.
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The article is about Wordpress.com selling 100-year registrations. Their platform is whatever they call “Wordpress”. In the same way, NYT on a phone app is conceptually the same NYT as the one printed in 1923, even if almost nothing in the production pipeline is the same.
The NYT can change any of the tech they use and still be the NYT in 100 years. Wordpress is the technology, if it changes, it becomes something else. That's the difference, explained.
They own the Wordpress trademark just like NYT owns theirs. Somebody who buys a 100-year registration from Wordpress will have the service delivered on whatever Wordpress has become by 2123.
It’s just a money grab for anyone who will fall for it. 100 years is long enough that the consequences of failure are nil. Nobody who is pushing this program will be alive to deal with any fallout. It reminds me of the subtle attitude of people making poor engineering decisions because they’ll be long gone by the time payment comes due.
Almost all ‘lifetime subs’ are scams; a company has to be massive to support it and if it doesn’t work out for smaller companies, the consequences don’t matter anyway.