About a decade ago, Goot learned about IPFS. Seemed like a great idea to solve the link rot associated with HTTP(S) and the Web in general. Links aren't tied to domain holders, who may either let the domain registration lapse or transfer ownership to someone else, or to filename locations, which may be reassigned to another file at the whimsy of the domain holder, or even to any one specific computer, which may just meltdown and explode. IPFS links are derived from the contents of the file itself, which guarantees that the file you ask for is the file you receive. And since that is a guarantee, once you have that file, anyone else can get that file straight from you. And once they have that file, they, too, can deliver it to whomever needs it. Finally, no more link rot! Truly, this is an InterPlanetary File System.
Recently, Goot found some old IPFS links from about that time.
You'll never guess what happened to those links.
