Companies pivot or vanish, links rot, and what remains is often incomplete, stripped of context, or locked behind proprietary walls—this is the ordinary condition of the present network, the quiet digital dark age we already inhabit. It does not have to continue; data can outlast any particular host so that the disappearance of one system does not erase it.
I build and maintain software, research technologies, protocols, and formats, and from time to time, write about the future of the internet, computer programming, and other stuff: