Those decisions affect everyone in the U.S., and the evidence the opinions are based on is disappearing.” For example, a 2013 Harvard study found that 49% of the URLs referenced in U.S. When announcing the Wayback Machine Chrome extension, Mark Graham, co-founder of the Internet Archive, mentioned that all the preservation is a good thing because the web is “fragile and ephemeral. Over 279 billion web pages have been recorded over the past 20 years by the Internet Archive. It’s one way to push back against “link rot,” meaning all those URLs that return nothing of value since sites are redesigned and undergo structural changes that result in broken links. When you surf to a dead link, both browsers have an extension/add-on which will automatically offer to serve up a preserved copy of the page via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. If you hate hitting a digital dead end, such as by surfing to a 404 or “page not found” error, then Chrome and Firefox users should consider doing away with them altogether…that is, as long as there is an archived copy available.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |