Worthy Read: “The Day the Good Internet Died” 2 ▲ blast-o-rama. 1 hour ago · Life · hide · 1 comments Worthy Read is an ongoing series here at the blog where I link out to a piece I think is worth your valuable time. Katie Baker / The Ringer: The internet lasts forever, the internet never forgets. And yet it is also a place in which I feel confronted with an almost unbearable volume of daily reminders of its decay: broken links, abandoned blogs, apps gone by, deleted tweets (miss you always, ah-well-nevertheless!), too-cutesy 404 messages, vanished Vines, videos whose copyright holders have requested removal, lost material that the Wayback Machine never crawled, things I know I’ve read somewhere and want to quote in my work but just can’t seem to resurface the same way I used to be able to. Some of these losses are silly and tiny, but others over the years have felt more monumental and telling. And when Google Reader disappeared in 2013, it wasn’t just a tale of dwindling user numbers or of what one engineer later described as a rotted codebase. It was a sign of the crumbling of the… Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here. John Harris @rodneylives@mefi.social 42 minutes ago [-] Generally a good post, but:1. It wasn't "dwindling user numbers" that killed Google Reader, it was Google, all to push attention to -- don't laugh! -- a now-obscure service called Google Plus that they were convinced was the future of the company. Sound familiar? (cough cough Google Gemini)2. If The Ringer doesn't offer an RSS feed any more, that is the fault of The Ringer. Lots of sites still have them. It's not hard to provide. Some people even hand-edit theirs. It's all a matter of the willingness to do it fucking right.
