One thing I changed my mind about in recent years is that I think “link rot” is fine, and that efforts to preserve all of the information on the web are misguided. Supposedly, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” but what if the reason we keep on falling into the same patterns of behavior is because we remember them? We certainly remember the 1930s enough to recognize where the creeping fascism we see today is headed, and it’s apparent that all the remembering in the world isn’t enough to stop it.
