The Decentralized Web Could Help Preserve The Internet's Data For 1,000 Years.
Found on Techdirt on Thursday, 07 May 2020
The web’s fragility in particular presents a big problem for the long-term sustainability of the web: we’re creating datasets that will be important for humanity 1000 years from now, but we aren’t safeguarding that data in a way that is future-proof. Link rot plagues the web today, with one study finding that over 98% of web links decay within 20 years.
If you really think the vast majority of today's data is valueable in 1000 years, you're in for a rude awakening.