When Online Content Disappears
www.pewresearch.org
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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

Depends on the information. My childhood web page should not be saved forever ;)

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Touché, I have some rather embarrassing pages myself which have luckily passed to the great /dev/null in the cybersky. 🤭

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