The problem of link rot and data loss

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Written By Brian Krogsgard

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    • Dang! I didn’t see that. I just saw Justin’s notes that he deleted it all in the new forum. What he must’ve meant was that he didn’t migrate it, but kept the old install. There you go! I edited the post to reflect it.

      I should’ve known Justin wouldn’t have done that. I just checked and I’ve been a member there for 6 years, so that would’ve been a lot of data to lose… Thrilled to see it’s still up.

  1. When I first arrived on this page, I saw the huge 404 header image and thought: oh darn, I musta just hit a 404! Kind of made me laugh for a split second. Nice read though: made me think about backing up my own site in ones of these more ‘permanent’ ways… 🙂

  2. Just yesterday I was going through some links to sites I used to read in 2007 / 2008. About 50 / 50 were still live… 🙁

    I used to print articles I thought I might need to PDF. I got to the point where I thought that was stupid and switched to bookmarking. Perhaps I should have stuck to PDF! 🙂

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