How long does a web page live 🤔 >5yrs ago I asked the internet, and made some new friends: x.com/dietrich/status/1135778377766… After a multi-year research collab with @archive.org, ODU and Filecoin Fdn... (largest study like this ever done) ... we have results! tldr: It's bad. fil.org/blog/the-web-isn-t-forever-ne…
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Archiving web sites
I recently took a deep dive into web site archival for friends who were worried about losing co [...]
My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.
How the Blog Broke the Web
I first got online in 1993, back when the Web had a capital letter — three, in fact — and long before irony stretched its legs and unbuttoned its flan
We can have a different web
Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.
It's time to rebuild the web
The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by a few major publishers; it was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices.
we were online
Turn the internet into a living, shared space with real-time traces of people browsing.
The year we wanted the internet to be smaller
Why tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017
Be A Property Owner And Not A Renter On The Internet
The year is 2025. The internet in the shape that we've known it in the early 2000s is no longer there. Or, not quite in the shape that we've seen it before. This is not just plain nostalgia talking - the vibrant ecosystem of blogs, feeds, personal sites, and forums has been usurped by a few mega-concentrated players.
The Web has lost its Soul - LOVEWEB
Medium's Evan Williams To Publishers: Your Website Is Toast
Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Websites are in about the same place as dinosaurs were at the tail end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago. Which is to say, about to go extinct. So says Evan Williams, a confounder of Twitter and Blogger and now CEO of Medium, the publishing platform he [...]
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02
Hey everyone, I spent the last three years as a Trust and Safety professional researching traditional social media and decided to put words to my thoughts. I hope you find my findings enjoyable or intriguing.
Traditional Social Media as a Prison
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