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Web developer Trevor Morris has a short post on the attrition of web sites over the years.
I have run the Laravel Artisan command I built to get statistics on my outgoing links section. Exactly one year later it doesn't make good reading.
[...] The percentage of total broken links has increased from 32.8% last year to 35.7% this year. Links from over a decade ago have a fifty per cent chance of no longer working. Thankfully, only three out of over 550 have gone missing in the last few years of links, but only time will tell how long they'll stick around.
As pointed out in the early and mid 1990s, the inherent centralization of sites, later web sites, is the basis for this weakness. That is to say one single copy exists which resides under the control of the publisher / maintainer. When that one copy goes, it is gone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 31 2024, @12:03AM
> to update my auto maintenance records...
...requires opening the file drawer, stuffing the itemized receipt from the shop in the front of the file folder for that car (all paper) and closing the file drawer. Takes a few seconds, since my memory for which drawer that folder lives in is (still) pretty good.
When I'm ready to sell that car (or really bored), I total up the receipts, write it on a scrap of paper and staple that batch together so I don't have to run that total again.