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NO DATES ON WEB BLOGS AND ARTICLES!

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I want to SCREAM...!

Just learned this.. The World is coming to an end in an hour. Save yourself, get indoors now!

Yikes.. Sounds ominous.. humm.. but, wait, when was that message posted??? It might have been posted in 1998.

I've stumbled across countless pages of information on the web over the years that offer significant information on some subject or other .. but with no published date.

This drives me crazy. When was that information current. There are websites and pages out on the web that are 20+ years old. If the information was posted 10 years ago, then it is not of any value at all, but if it was published this afternoon or yesterday, it could be very significant..

Now a little story ..

I first got into computing back in the early 80's, when one of the offerings of the era was a dialup Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). I ran my own BBS (" TBBS " written by Philip L. Becker) for years on a DEC Rainbow PC until the web came along. All sorts of software programs were coming out virtually every day. I and many other BBS operators supported the posting of these new software programs for downloading by our BBS users. At that time, new software updates had no centralized dissemination system. Authors would just upload their new stuff to whatever BBS hit their fancy of the moment with no version number or no date and frequently labeled "New Version". BBS uses had no way of knowing if they where looking at truly the most recent version of a program or one that had been superceded 6 times since.

The same holds true today on these posted articles. If you are uploading or posting information to a blog, news column, or anywhere, PUT THE DATE ON IT!!!

Humm.. I guess it wouldn't hurt if all web pages had some kind of webfeedback button (see below "Offered by.."), where a user could click on the button for any page and report a problem with the page (by page name/number). The entire web community could then be your backup proof readers .. if this page is ever found to be lacking in any way, it can be spotted, corrected and/or taken down.


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