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Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? by bbarnett on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:35AM (#30085874)
people in the “content industry” (tell me that’s not a real thing)

I think if there is a thing of any sort, there's an industry for it.

And if it sound dumb to an engineer type, it's more likely there's a lot of it.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? by da39a3ee on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:49AM (#30086073)
It’s too general though isn’t it. It would be like the “doing stuff” industry being a thing. There might be people who use the term, but that doesn’t mean the term points to any actual phenomenon in the real world.
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Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? by supernovae on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:30AM (#30086667)
It's a huge industry. There are services to buy writers, buy content, trade content, link content, guest post so on and so forth.
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Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? by bo1024 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @04:29PM (#30092178)
That was my reaction, it’s scary right. Like need an article on safely installing a light switch? Call the content industry. Managing stored PII and passwords? Content industry. Medical information? Content industry.
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