I've been involved with technology for several years now and I love it. Look at all the great things that have evolved as a result of the Internet. Hmmm... blogging comes to mind. How about MySpace and YouTube too?
As a techie, the Internet is one of my greatest resources but one thing I've noticed as I seek out information, is that there are numerous articles around that don't have dates listed anywhere in the article. This is a real faux-pas in terms relevance of the information.
I've recently taken on the challenge of trying to set up a Linux storage cluster that makes use of an ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) interface and while there are several articles on the subject, as one reads through them, it becomes apparent, often quickly, that the article is not relevant to the current software environment.
This doesn't mean the article isn't valuable, but if these articles had a dates associated with them, one would be able to place them in some sort of context. Without dates, the information is often be mis-leading and sometimes even harmful.
There isn't much that can be done to correct an issue like this, after the fact, but it would sure be nice to see all Internet based articles tagged with the date it was posted. Similar to what we see today with our blog posts.
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