Sunday, October 26, 2008

Broken Links

I'm starting to notice a lot of broken links on the Internet. I wonder if this is part of the impact of the financial crisis. Maintaining archives on the Web involves some cost for server space, bandwidth, and maintenance costs. When financing was easy and business was good, this cost may have seemed insignificant, and certainly cutting it wasn't a high priority. With business falling off and financing very difficult, every little cash drain has to be closed, so it becomes hard to justify maintaining old Web pages for the benefit of the public. That's my theory, anyhow.

10 Comments:

Blogger JTapp said...

I think this should be considered a hypothesis and not a "theory."

Mon Oct 27, 10:22:00 AM EDT  
Blogger Vikram P said...

Dear Knzn,

Thanks for your great coverage of the government bailout.

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Mon Oct 27, 05:33:00 PM EDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Very few individuals have the time/interest/monomania required to keep a web site going for year after year. Consequently, sites are always being abandoned; files once set up for download get erased as storage charges mount; etc. New modes of interaction (Facebook, Flickr, Wikipedia, Gnapster, eDonkey) replace old modes (Compuserve, e-mail, American On-line). Change is constant. Call it "web rot" or entropy, the internet is always decaying. Now and then we become especially conscious of it.

For instance, I've watched abandonware game sites rise and fall over most of a decade. The churning of personnel is constant. However, what seems obvious to me has probably escaped your eye unless you're part of that scene. You're not seeing something brand new, I'm trying to say. You're just getting conscious of an old reality.

As for a proper response to all this ... I dunno. I do not think the Internet in 2050 is going to be anything at all like the internet in 2008 "but with tailfins." I think we're living through a unique moment in human history, and that on the far side of this time, we will have much increased human-net-computer interconnectivity, but much less conscious awareness of the fact. We'll USE wikipedia and other data bases to settle all our knowledge demands (most, anyhow), for instance, but only specialists will understand how normal folks are one moment ignorant of English history and one moment later experts on English politics during the reign of Queen Anne/ Only specialists will find this sort of thing at all interesting.

But I digress.


-mike shupp

Mon Oct 27, 11:01:00 PM EDT  
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Thu Oct 30, 12:19:00 AM EDT  
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With all the whole financial mess, employers are going to use this opportunity to ever more exploit their employees and no one is going to have time to go on the net anymore.

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