Peter M. Ball (@petermball.bsky.social)

Preserving Great Writing Advice From Internet Decay A 2024 article about the slow decay of the internet has been making the rounds of social media recently. In it, S.E. Smith charts the speed at which old websites and links become inaccessible and asks what happens when the internet disappears?…

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Preserving Great Writing Advice From Internet Decay A 2024 article about the slow decay of the internet has been making the rounds of social media recently. In it, S.E. Smith charts the speed at which old websites and links become inaccessible and asks what happens when the internet disappears? Here’s an interesting statistic in the article: 38% of websites accessible in 2013 were inaccessible ten years later. The websites get taken down, or restructured in such a way that old links no longer work, or individual pages get deleted. I’m very familiar with this phenomenon. In the years before I launched Brain Jar Press, I worked for the Queensland Writers Centre and spent a good chunk of my days advising writers about how to build their careers. https://petermball.com/preserving-great-writing-advice-from-internet-decay/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social