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		kiicia 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plai... having bookmark you don't use is one thing, but linkrot of that one bookmark you actually do need is much worse

jcynix 5 months ago [–]

To combat link rot I use an applet which looks up a link at archive.org and when I visit an interesting site (of supposedly longer lasting value) I check if it's archived already. If not I ask the way back machine to store it.

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