http://www.biggu.com/2006/08/17/breaking-the-web/ Developers of ShopSavvy Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:13:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.biggu.com/2006/08/17/breaking-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-408 Internet Archive - Hujo Blogger Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:12:13 +0000 http://www.weblogswork.com/2006/08/17/breaking-the-web/#comment-408 [...] I’ve had a few conversations with a few different people about what is going to happen in the future to our pictures, powerpoints, movies, etc as we move into the Digital Age. Traditionally having things in hard copy make it easy to preserve, just put it on the shelf. But what happens in 20 years when the mp3 format is ancient history? Will it be a requirement for new technologies that they be able to play all previous formats? Wouldn’t that be a limiting factor? Are we going to have to constantly migrate our files into the newest formats if we want to preserve things? I have hundreds of pictures from the past 4 or 5 years but about 20 of those are in hardcopy. What happens when image file formats change? Will those pictures get lost in the mix? Whenever I bring these things up people usually think its a good point but there seems to be very little discussion about it. One of my favorite blogs that I have in my feed reader is the Texas Statup Blog by Weblogs Work that profiles Texas Startups. An associated blog recently blogged about Breaking the Web? To summarize he talks about what is expected of a website? If a website serves its purpose is there a responsibility to keep paying for it to be hosted to prevent “breaking the web” as he puts it given the assumption that other websites have linked. This is a similar problem to the formatting issue in that digital files need a lot of maintanence to keep everything running smoothly. I recently ran across the Internet Archive at archive.org. They have a Wayback Machine that crawls the internet and archives webpages. The project first started crawling webpages in 1996 long before many companies even had solid websites. At first I thought it was kind of cool. Images don’t always archive smoothly but you can view ESPN.com’s original site or the original Google.com. You can see Johnson Printing Service’s original website built in 1999 and the September 21, 2003 archive of the JPS website I built during the summer of 2003. The internet has definetely come a long way. The year 1996 wasn’t that long ago but those archived sites look so oldschool. [...] [...] I’ve had a few conversations with a few different people about what is going to happen in the future to our pictures, powerpoints, movies, etc as we move into the Digital Age. Traditionally having things in hard copy make it easy to preserve, just put it on the shelf. But what happens in 20 years when the mp3 format is ancient history? Will it be a requirement for new technologies that they be able to play all previous formats? Wouldn’t that be a limiting factor? Are we going to have to constantly migrate our files into the newest formats if we want to preserve things? I have hundreds of pictures from the past 4 or 5 years but about 20 of those are in hardcopy. What happens when image file formats change? Will those pictures get lost in the mix? Whenever I bring these things up people usually think its a good point but there seems to be very little discussion about it. One of my favorite blogs that I have in my feed reader is the Texas Statup Blog by Weblogs Work that profiles Texas Startups. An associated blog recently blogged about Breaking the Web? To summarize he talks about what is expected of a website? If a website serves its purpose is there a responsibility to keep paying for it to be hosted to prevent “breaking the web” as he puts it given the assumption that other websites have linked. This is a similar problem to the formatting issue in that digital files need a lot of maintanence to keep everything running smoothly. I recently ran across the Internet Archive at archive.org. They have a Wayback Machine that crawls the internet and archives webpages. The project first started crawling webpages in 1996 long before many companies even had solid websites. At first I thought it was kind of cool. Images don’t always archive smoothly but you can view ESPN.com’s original site or the original Google.com. You can see Johnson Printing Service’s original website built in 1999 and the September 21, 2003 archive of the JPS website I built during the summer of 2003. The internet has definetely come a long way. The year 1996 wasn’t that long ago but those archived sites look so oldschool. [...]

]]> http://www.biggu.com/2006/08/17/breaking-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-950 Internet Archive - Hujo Blogger Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:12:13 +0000 http://www.weblogswork.com/2006/08/17/breaking-the-web/#comment-950 [...] I’ve had a few conversations with a few different people about what is going to happen in the future to our pictures, powerpoints, movies, etc as we move into the Digital Age. Traditionally having things in hard copy make it easy to preserve, just put it on the shelf. But what happens in 20 years when the mp3 format is ancient history? Will it be a requirement for new technologies that they be able to play all previous formats? Wouldn’t that be a limiting factor? Are we going to have to constantly migrate our files into the newest formats if we want to preserve things? I have hundreds of pictures from the past 4 or 5 years but about 20 of those are in hardcopy. What happens when image file formats change? Will those pictures get lost in the mix? Whenever I bring these things up people usually think its a good point but there seems to be very little discussion about it. One of my favorite blogs that I have in my feed reader is the Texas Statup Blog by Weblogs Work that profiles Texas Startups. An associated blog recently blogged about Breaking the Web? To summarize he talks about what is expected of a website? If a website serves its purpose is there a responsibility to keep paying for it to be hosted to prevent “breaking the web” as he puts it given the assumption that other websites have linked. This is a similar problem to the formatting issue in that digital files need a lot of maintanence to keep everything running smoothly. I recently ran across the Internet Archive at archive.org. They have a Wayback Machine that crawls the internet and archives webpages. The project first started crawling webpages in 1996 long before many companies even had solid websites. At first I thought it was kind of cool. Images don’t always archive smoothly but you can view ESPN.com’s original site or the original Google.com. You can see Johnson Printing Service’s original website built in 1999 and the September 21, 2003 archive of the JPS website I built during the summer of 2003. The internet has definetely come a long way. The year 1996 wasn’t that long ago but those archived sites look so oldschool. [...] [...] I’ve had a few conversations with a few different people about what is going to happen in the future to our pictures, powerpoints, movies, etc as we move into the Digital Age. Traditionally having things in hard copy make it easy to preserve, just put it on the shelf. But what happens in 20 years when the mp3 format is ancient history? Will it be a requirement for new technologies that they be able to play all previous formats? Wouldn’t that be a limiting factor? Are we going to have to constantly migrate our files into the newest formats if we want to preserve things? I have hundreds of pictures from the past 4 or 5 years but about 20 of those are in hardcopy. What happens when image file formats change? Will those pictures get lost in the mix? Whenever I bring these things up people usually think its a good point but there seems to be very little discussion about it. One of my favorite blogs that I have in my feed reader is the Texas Statup Blog by Weblogs Work that profiles Texas Startups. An associated blog recently blogged about Breaking the Web? To summarize he talks about what is expected of a website? If a website serves its purpose is there a responsibility to keep paying for it to be hosted to prevent “breaking the web” as he puts it given the assumption that other websites have linked. This is a similar problem to the formatting issue in that digital files need a lot of maintanence to keep everything running smoothly. I recently ran across the Internet Archive at archive.org. They have a Wayback Machine that crawls the internet and archives webpages. The project first started crawling webpages in 1996 long before many companies even had solid websites. At first I thought it was kind of cool. Images don’t always archive smoothly but you can view ESPN.com’s original site or the original Google.com. You can see Johnson Printing Service’s original website built in 1999 and the September 21, 2003 archive of the JPS website I built during the summer of 2003. The internet has definetely come a long way. The year 1996 wasn’t that long ago but those archived sites look so oldschool. [...]

]]> http://www.biggu.com/2006/08/17/breaking-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-407 Roger Benningfield Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:49:02 +0000 http://www.weblogswork.com/2006/08/17/breaking-the-web/#comment-407 If you really feel that the content and incoming links have long-term value to the world in general, then I would suggest converting the site to static HTML. Most of your security and management concerns go away, and the site is still there. If you really feel that the content and incoming links have long-term value to the world in general, then I would suggest converting the site to static HTML. Most of your security and management concerns go away, and the site is still there.

]]> http://www.biggu.com/2006/08/17/breaking-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-949 Roger Benningfield Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:49:02 +0000 http://www.weblogswork.com/2006/08/17/breaking-the-web/#comment-949 If you really feel that the content and incoming links have long-term value to the world in general, then I would suggest converting the site to static HTML. Most of your security and management concerns go away, and the site is still there. If you really feel that the content and incoming links have long-term value to the world in general, then I would suggest converting the site to static HTML. Most of your security and management concerns go away, and the site is still there.

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