The article addresses the common problem of "link rot," where bookmarked URLs eventually lead to dead pages or broken content. The author argues that traditional bookmarks and the standard "Save As" method are unreliable because they often fail to capture all necessary web assets like images and stylesheets. To solve this, the author recommends using the SingleFile browser extension. This open-source tool creates a pixel-perfect, self-contained HTML file of a webpage, bundling all CSS, fonts, and images into one document. This ensures that the archived page remains functional and visually identical even without an internet connection, providing a reliable way to preserve digital information for the long term.
The original 1965 chatbot restored on the world's first time-sharing system, ELIZA, created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in 1964-6, is running again on a reconstructed version of MIT's CTSS, running on an emulated IBM 7094.
