The Lindy effect aka "Lindy's law" is the theory that the momentary future life expectancy of an idea or technology (object) is a Pareto probability distribution proportional to the current age of the object. So the longer something has existed, the longer its remaining life expectancy. This idea also applies to some species of life, but subpopulations of animals frequently follow lognormal distributions instead of Pareto.
The short and shrinking lifetime of trending ideas and technology is nowhere more evident than Internet blogs, web sites, AI companies, and memes. I discovered that jwz published a pair of scripts to make your URLs a little more permanent. One rewrite URLs to use archive.org and the other crawls your wordpress blog to rewrite all links to point at archive.org.
archive.org is the prime target for takedowns; in fact, the Lindy's Law link above was taken down! Luckily, other preservation sites are filling the gap for wayback machine functionality. There are many web sites like archive.ph, stillio, perma.cc, mementoweb, and archivebox that can fill the gaps, but the longevity of these archive sites is also questionable.
The short and shrinking lifetime of trending ideas and technology is nowhere more evident than Internet blogs, web sites, AI companies, and memes. I discovered that jwz published a pair of scripts to make your URLs a little more permanent. One rewrite URLs to use archive.org and the other crawls your wordpress blog to rewrite all links to point at archive.org.
archive.org is the prime target for takedowns; in fact, the Lindy's Law link above was taken down! Luckily, other preservation sites are filling the gap for wayback machine functionality. There are many web sites like archive.ph, stillio, perma.cc, mementoweb, and archivebox that can fill the gaps, but the longevity of these archive sites is also questionable.
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