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Study finds a quarter of all webpages from 2013 to 2023 no longer exist (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's the internet for you. Anything you want to stay around will vanish someday, and anything you want gone will be here forever.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

We ultimately don't know what is going to survive the digital revolution. I wonder what's going to be lost to time and what historians and archeologists will be able to recover and view centuries or millennia in the future.