When Online Content Disappears
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A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/25166889

This is like the disinvention of the printing press, at least from an archeological perspective.

Well, websites can still be made, so not quite the same, but I get what you mean:-).

And similarly, a ton of written material was lost e.g. when a library was burned - often unique or rare material subsequently lost in other ways, so very much the same process.

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