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by larsiusprime 3550 days ago
"is not rushing in to save stuff that's about to be deleted" > I took the burning building metaphor as as a somewhat fanciful, but otherwise accurate description of the natural state of the web -- a series of loosely linked html pages that could disappear at any minute (and often do) as soon as the hosting expires, the author stops maintaining them, or the company reorganizes, etc. As a simple exercise, go browse a popular blog from 2008 or so and count the broken links.