The Internet is Disappearing!

[Softball Bat]

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/inte ... 48202.html

https://au.news.yahoo.com/internet-disa ... 29908.html


The internet is disappearing, a new study has suggested, as web pages and online content is lost.

The web is often thought of as a place where content lasts forever. But vast swathes of its are
being lost as pages are deleted or moved, according to new research.

Of the webpages that existed in 2013, for instance, 38 per cent are now lost. Even newer pages
are disappearing: 8 per cent of pages that existed in 2023 are no longer available.

Those pages tend to disappear when they are deleted or moved. That happens on otherwise
functional websites, the study from the Pew Research Center indicated, rather than happening when
whole websites disappear.

The effect means that vast amounts of news and important reference content are disappearing.
Some 23 per cent of news pages include at least one broken link, and 21 per cent of government
websites, it said – and 54 per cent of Wikipedia pages include a link in their references that no longer
exists.

Much the same effect is happening on social media. A fifth of tweets disappear from the site within
months of being posted.

The study was completed by gathering a random samples of almost a million webpages, taken from
Common Crawl, a service that archives parts of the internet. Researchers then looked to see whether
those pages continued to exist between 2013 and 2023.

It found that 25 per cent of all pages collected between 2013 and 2023 were no longer available. Of
those, 16 per cent of pages came from a website that continues to exist, while 9 per cent were
located on websites that no longer exist at all.




I do notice this.
I've seen something on the web, and then have gone back to look for it, but do not find it.

And also, there is a concerted effort on the part of Google (and others ) to make it difficult to find information that Google (and others) does not really want to be easily found.




The internet comes with many warnings, one being that you should always be careful what you put
out there because it "lasts forever." But a new study from Pew Research Center shows that's not
always true; much of what's put out on the internet really only lasts a fleeting amount of time.

https://www.ksby.com/science-and-tech/t ... tudy-finds




Well, all of the wonderful posts at .net are ----> GONE!

One of these days, AP's panty picture will be -----> GONE!


:smile:

[Mikey]

Looks like your emoji is ----> GONE!

[Softball Bat]

Very good point, Mikey!

I blame -----> kcdave.

He is the one who insisted on smilies being changed.


:smile:

[Screw_Michigan]

One of these days, AP's panty picture will be -----> GONE!

Not so fast, my friend. The Wayback Machine will have AP's panty photo for many many years.

[Sudden Sam]

The Wayback Machine will have AP's panty photo for many many years.

Seriously…what was he thinking?! Of all the shit that’s been posted in here, that one boggles the mind.

[Screw_Michigan]

Seriously…what was he thinking?! Of all the shit that’s been posted in here, that one boggles the mind.

One of the world's great mysteries

[HighPlainsGrifter]

Very good point, Mikey!

I blame -----> kcdave.

He is the one who insisted on smilies being changed.


:smile:

If anything gets fucked up, it's usually dave.

If that guy stumbled upon the switch that powers the universe with a sign above it saying, "Do Not Touch!" dave would turn it off just to see what happens.

[Meat Head]

He would smash and grab the lock-out-key-tag box and sell it at the pawn shop to buy a faxxx chubby lady in Vegas.

Just fukkin with you Dave, we love you. In a man way.