> it is sometimes hard to me to see how new generations fail to find such information, even though it is available on the web
As someone who has attempted to go back and find old articles and concepts for which I remember only the generalities, I understand this completely. The problem, IMHO, is that search engines put too much emphasis on the publication date of an article - you'll get recent musings on the topic on the first ten pages, and then if you're lucky you'll get the original material on the eleventh.
However, you're frequently unlucky in this regard, since the search engines will devolve into poor-yet-recent matches before looking further back in time.
Ironically, the internet is forgetting, because we've too finely tuned the algorithms to value newness and community guesses over authority.
As someone who has attempted to go back and find old articles and concepts for which I remember only the generalities, I understand this completely. The problem, IMHO, is that search engines put too much emphasis on the publication date of an article - you'll get recent musings on the topic on the first ten pages, and then if you're lucky you'll get the original material on the eleventh.
However, you're frequently unlucky in this regard, since the search engines will devolve into poor-yet-recent matches before looking further back in time.
Ironically, the internet is forgetting, because we've too finely tuned the algorithms to value newness and community guesses over authority.