I read this many years ago. Let me find the source.
Edit: I can't find it. Anyone else remember reading this? The mysql job queue reference was from a popular article that went out about it at the time
Edit 2: the job queue article is from 2011.
Edit 3: still can't find it. But I know every part of this article before seeing it ... I tested myself and remembered all the details... Where is this thing from?
Still can't find it. My confidence in the permanence of the web is pretty destroyed right now. I can't even find references to it existing.
Yes. This article came out after that. I realized a few paragraphs in that I had read all of it. I tested it by guessing the content and was 100% correct. But I can't find it.
This isn't the first time I wanted a searchable version of archive.org that effectively timecapsuled the interactive internet. Things fall off the net far more than common folklore suggests
I'm glad to see someone else echoing my anxiety. I had the impression that Uniform Resource Locators were meant to be treated as bookmarks into a web of knowledge, so it's like brain damage when they break. It's too bad it happens so frequently, because for a few blissful years my urge to hoard was quieted by the assumption that the internet was doing it for me.
Those enormous URLs that describe nothing but a document GUID are also a sin.
I've resorted to capturing every single interesting link as a complete HTML page to DEVONthink, which is a mac application specifically meant for storing large amounts of data. It's already proven quite handy in two ways:
1. I can access articles that have disappeared off the net
2. I have a very powerful search function and 'similarity engine' constrained to only the information I've found useful so far. It's often the first place I look for certain kinds of information before I try google.
I can strongly recommend using such a tool to make sure you don't 'lose' stuff on the internet that is important to you.
Edit: I can't find it. Anyone else remember reading this? The mysql job queue reference was from a popular article that went out about it at the time
Edit 2: the job queue article is from 2011.
Edit 3: still can't find it. But I know every part of this article before seeing it ... I tested myself and remembered all the details... Where is this thing from?
Still can't find it. My confidence in the permanence of the web is pretty destroyed right now. I can't even find references to it existing.