Oops, There Goes Another Web Site: The Web Is Disappearing

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By bloid
via sitepoint.com
Published: Oct 02 2008 / 18:18

If there’s one thing we know for sure about the Internet, it is that by its very nature it is a transient medium. What was 10 years ago, is generally nothing like what is today, which will be nothing like what will be 10 years from now. Blogger Robert Scoble posted today that the recently released Search 2001 archived search engine from Google (our coverage) highlights well the web’s transient nature. Many of the sites that existed in the search results on Google in 2001, not only don’t appear in the results for those searches today, but don’t exist on the web at all.

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Abhay Bakshi replied ago:

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Josh Catone asks: "150 years from now, will this blog post still exist?". My response is: who is worried over it? who cares if it doesn't exist? Worry is something that is not going to take us anywhere. Worry doesn't last for long, that's good news.

My response to the *whole* blog post is: we cannot forget - "energy can neither be created nor be destroyed, it just takes one form from another". If some good content is being created and posted on the web, it *will* be picked up by those (brains) to whom it is most applicable AND *will also* be retained by them in one form or another!!

The other law that we should not forget about is: "the law of sowing and reaping". Whatever you sow, you reap it, now or later. Whatever goes around comes around.

Lastly, the best news is - the human has made progress in the whole process, and so has the Universe. Who is worried? Can we focus on our task at hand for today instead? "The Web Is Disappearing" - I am confident it is not. I am sorry. (Nothing personal against Josh Catone)