Going through the bookmarks I've saved over the years and 90% of the links are dead. The internet in 2025.
Me too. And just recently. Since Pocket decided to shut down, I ported them all to Raindrop.io and started pruning them. They go back to 2016, which isn't
that long ago.
That said, many of them are dead, moved, or paywalled. Archive.org has been a great help though.
Some weird stuff back then... like reading the news from March 2020 just a couple weeks after Covid f'ed everyone up. There were people debating zombie apocalypse scenarios, Lady Gag-a was doing some weird-assed online WHO concert called "One World: Together at Home", and other people said Covid was as good as over because of a Chinese clinical trial on the prescription of chloroquine promised to end it immediately.
The insane crap people did just five years ago...
A blonde won man of the world 2025
Sorry to break this to you, but those dudes aren't dudes. They're synthetic androids with zero junk down there save for a smooth plastic bump.
I mean, just look at that lipstick and teeth whitening....
I've been archiving / saving pages as PDFs for a while now if I come across something I want to retain.
I also still use my RSS reader (Inoreader is fantastic) to keep up with blogs and industry news. RSS is free, open, well-established, and easy to use. More people should be using it. Anyone can curate their information consumption by choosing which sources to follow, bypassing the filtering and manipulative algorithms of social media platforms.
I went back to Feedly for RSS reading too in the past month. So bizarre. So much of digital tech has been so enshittified, going back to old tools has felt liberating to me.