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Showerthoughts

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Old articles are clogging up search engines (lemm.ee)
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The internet used to be where you found the latest information. But it's old enough that you could easily find info on 10-20 year old articles that are out of date and irrelevant

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

In the past month I've seen mentioned on Lemmy, and downloaded an important article on global climate change, from the late 1800s (Eunice Foote - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Newton_Foote#%22Circumstances_Affecting_the_Heat_of_the_Sun's_Rays%22), and I'm glad to have come across it. The knife of time cuts in both directions.