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Hit 47 dead links in a single bookmark folder from 2014
I was cleaning out old bookmarks last night and found a folder I'd completely forgotten about called 'cool stuff.' I opened it up thinking I'd find some fun memories. Instead I got 47 dead links out of 52 total. Most were just Error 404 screens or domain parking pages. One was a personal blog from a guy who used to review obscure video game soundtracks. I tried the Wayback Machine and only about half of those had any snapshots saved. The rest are just gone. Like that blog about cassette tape restoration from 2009? Vanished. It kinda hit me how much of the early internet is just rotting away without anyone noticing. Has anyone else opened an old bookmark folder and found most of it dead?
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the_amy4mo ago
Totally feel you. I had a folder named 'stuff to check out' from like 2013 and I think 8 out of 15 still worked. The worst was this one site that was a huge collection of old graffiti photos from my city. The domain is just a parked ad page now and even the Wayback Machine only got like half the images. What really got me was a blog by some guy who hand drew maps of weird neighborhood corners. No backups, no nothing. It's honestly scary how fast stuff disappears. I started copying the pages I really care about to a local folder on my hard drive now. Saved a few that way.
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