Web Persistence - It’s Important

20 years ago we talked about the challenge of reading old format files - and how we protect the future … The problem is still here. But it’s not just reading a few files - could be entire businesses that suffer.

It’s a very clear example of why it’s not good to depend on free commercial services to form critical parts of your content infrastructure.

Source: Dave Winer - What changes at Medium and Yahoo Pipes teach us about the persistence of the web



Date
June 7, 2015