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Re:This Page is Designed to Last by romwell on Thursday December 19, 2019 @06:44PM (#21840454)
>There's no reason why a web browser bookmark action doesn't automatically create a WARC (web archive) format.

Indeed.

And I still remember the modem days where I would download entire websites because the ISP charged by the hour, and I'd read them offline to save money.

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Re:This Page is Designed to Last by JoeSmithson on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:44PM (#21840806)
I can't put my finger on it but this has a sort of Dickensian quality to me.

I think this says something kind of profound about information and capitalism and whatnot.

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Re:This Page is Designed to Last by thomasz on Friday December 20, 2019 @06:14AM (#21843264)
No, it hasn't. Technology just wasn't there back then which caused significant cost per time unit, which makes it only fair to charge per time unit.
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Re:This Page is Designed to Last by majewsky on Friday December 20, 2019 @09:33AM (#21844389)
Yeah. In the dialup days, layer 1 and 2 of a home internet connection was a long-running phone call between your own modem and a modem of an ISP. You payed via your phone bill, for the duration of the call.
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Re:This Page is Designed to Last by alentist on Friday December 20, 2019 @12:05PM (#21845592)
It says scarce resources are pricier. Welcome to the real world!
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