Tempus fugit & the internet

Investment Analysis Clubs Macro Economic Trends and Risks
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  • A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible, as of October 2023. In most cases, this is because an individual page was deleted or removed on an otherwise functional website.
  • For older content, this trend is even starker. Some 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are not available today, compared with 8% of pages that existed in 2023.
  • 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link, as do 21% of webpages from government sites. News sites with a high level of site traffic and those with less are about equally likely to contain broken links. Local-level government webpages (those belonging to city governments) are especially likely to have broken links.
  • 54% of Wikipedia pages contain at least one link in their “References” section that points to a page that no longer exists.

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Facebook has killed a number of its pages for arbitrary and capricious reasons. As the “owner” of one of those many pages, I can directly express regret that I did not take ownership of my own content. Instead, what started as a relatively casual past time turned into an invaluable history that is forever gone… :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:

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