Anil Dashrelevant to my post last night that I'm going back and fixing up my 23 years of blog archives, and restoring broken links, it is *astounding* how much better a job the personal web does at keeping links alive and content online. Most personal blogs I linked to are either still around or redirect to a place where the content is easy to find. The vast majority of corporate content (including news) has been erased, with only imperfect Internet Archive copies available.
Glenn Fleishman@anildash I still have some static Movable Type blogs that I removed the engine from! So some links from 1999 remain in place. I migrated across a couple platforms (Userland? -> Movable Type -> Squarespace) and I believe was able to ensure either a redirect or an exact URI across all those.
Brian Dear@glennf @anildash Still using MT. One reason: the attack bots no longer blitz my server with probing “mt-this” “mt-that” cgi script requests. The hacker weenies are too young to be aware of MT now and so all the bot attacks are WordPress “wpthis” “wpthat” which all get 404s. (Except a few where I created fake files that say “nice try” muhahaha.)