There are just too many things on the web that are constantly changing, I think we are losing a very important piece of our culture.
The problem, as much as web is weaved into our culture, we do not really have memories of it. Do you remember the first eBay auction listing? or would you like to know the first email ever sent? Just as the "Mary Had a Little Lamb", we have no clue of history and the validity of any myth.
Is this how we want it to be, histroy becomes myth and myth becomes legend. and not the backwards.
Maybe the information still exists somewhere, in a backup file on someone’s local machine, in a googled cached copy, or in the proprietary database of a company.
With all the information overloading we have, keep the web history will definitely complicated the things. So if we ever want to do it, we will definitely neeed some ranking system, maybe even need to dig out the apache logs to check the popularity. This diffs from current popular social bookmarking thing is that we are doing the "archiving", not the "tags".
Will there be any commercial application for this? I think so. There are always selling opportunities no matter how old the article is (think google ads). And maybe one day, we can have sophiscated search power enough to compile information for us, instead of DIY style of current seach technologies.
Someone once said those who do not remember are doomed to repeat. Let’s just see whether history will become myth again.
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