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“It turns out that link rot and content drift are endemic to the web, which is both unsurprising and shockingly risky for a library that has ‘billions of books and no central filing system,’” Jonathan Zittrain wrote in 2021, though I only discovered this essay now. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/
@estherschindler Link rot and content drift have bugged me for decades. We are simultaneously both incredibly informed and ignorant. I need to write about this again.
@sjvn Much as I love you, my brother, you won't do as good a job as Zittrain. :-)
@estherschindler No, but I'll do well at it.
@estherschindler painful read.
Zittrain is situated in the Berkman center and could have noticed all the work done on this by academic libraries since _before_ the WWW.
Huge body of literature, basis of MSLS/IS degrees, very hard to miss.
He did cover many topics, so. Okay. <rant />