Historically people have pursued two visions of backward compatibility for hyperlinked content: get to Xanadu (2-way awareness, transclusion etc) and content centric networking (construct discoverable address for container from hash of contents). Neither has arrived so far.
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Painful manual updates and 301 redirects approximate the former. Linking to a Google search (ideally the top ‘I’m feeling lucky’ result) approximates the latter. Neither is great. So as the web evolves, links break, entropy accumulates.
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Heh you're still beating that drum :) I don't think you'll ever sell your bolt-on 2d trading spaces vision to the internet. You'll have to start a new competing thing.
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