lobsters score: 24 · tags: networking, web
Really? We’ll be using the internet in 100 years? I doubt we’ll be using URLs within 20 years.
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Why? They’ve last for 30 already. I don’t see any reason they would drop out due to AI or VR or whatever.
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A thing that has happened a lot lately is people will buy up dead blog domains from the 2010s with good residual SEO and then fill them with AI slop. I’ve read about multiple instances of that happening.
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I had a similar thing happen recently when I followed a link to https://notamonadtutorial.com/ which now seems to be a sort of testing spot for someone’s new AI generated tech news site. Felt rather disappointing seeing a clever programmer in-joke domain turned into… this.
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There’s probably a bunch of startups being created for this now, if there aren’t such already.
If it becomes a major problem, maybe there will be a GDPR-like legislation that gives a right to purge domain’s history.
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