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What happens to dead pages? I don't know much about this type of thing since internet browsers seem like black magic to me. But could we persuade the internet owners to change the way that links are done? I think of a link as a chunk of text known as a URL. When the link doesn't work, "Error 404" for
example, it could be due to the brute fact that the page no longer exists because the hard drive has been wiped, mashed, or crushed. But it could be because the URL has ben changed, for the best of reasons, it just doesn't know the new text string.
Put something in the internet.. here I am grasping at vagueness, as though trying to clutch at an elusive fairy in a dream within a dream.. to hold the old address with a lookup table of the new addresses... 2 fries help!!!
What to do, what to do?
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[bhumphrys, Apr 23 2025]
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I think I posted something similar way back, but I liked that one too so... [+] |
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Most bitrot happens when the old site just dies. Often enough the content is completely gone at that point, even though it may exist in another form elsewhere on the internet, possibly in the future. Searching the internet for all possible related information and re-hosting as a site full of just forwards is financially and technologically unfeasible. As for internal links, when an idea is gone, it's gone. It takes LLM level intelligence to know whether and when a similar idea has been posted, and that would require a locally hosted, uncensored (because the censored LLMs balk at the silliest things) LLM running on an A100 because using calls to ChatGPT would cost too much. |
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"Bitrot", putting that in my dictionary. |
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If you're doing that you should know it's not just about sites and links being lost, it generally applies to the loss of digital information. Like when an image is deemed too spicy for modern viewing and none of the big sites will host it (no, I'm not talking about porn of any kind) and so it just kinds of stops being seen until it only exists on old hard drives, then disappears from the world and it's not shared and the hard drives are trashed over decades. Or an old game on an unusual medium that was never popular enough to make it into the archives. Or footage of sportsball games no one is bothering to archive. |
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