So... Is the point just that the work needs to be good first and foremost?

Love Wayback Machine stories

Maybe one day the previous owner will find what you've built

Very interesting that OpenAI is by far the biggest driver and also that LLMs mostly crawl sites to ground answers

Because as we all know the Internet is never wrong

This has strong Stand By Me vibes

I think all the agents might also be putting GitHub to sleep in the same fashion

I get it - every week I look at a summary of AI news and my derealization meter spikes I wonder if even next year 2026 will seem like the new "good old days"

Depending who you talk to it's a Monkey's Paw

And the wishes are (almost) unlimited!

I'm re-reading the title and it is a little misleading (my apologies). The answer is a little bit complicated: the domain has been registered since 1999 (27 years). The initial site ran from 1999 to 2007 (8 years) and came back as a single page app around the 2008 election (~2 years). In February he re-created the site and hopefully it beats its predecessor's record!

That's fair criticism. I did use AI to help draft and clearly didn't scrub it thoroughly enough. The story is real and the research is mine, but the presentation could be more authentic. I'll take the lesson for the next one

Is this the start of a Jules Verne novel? Really though super cool

Or something darker.. R'yleh where dead Cthulu lies dreaming is out there near Point Nemo too ;)

Or something even darker than that...

What if this story took place on a planet where the inhabitants collectively decided to value at-all-costs economic growth over a sustainable ecosystem, resulting in a situation where they were losing over a trillion metric tons of ice per year and that is what caused the mysterious island to be revealed...?

That scenario is so unrealistic that nobody would be able to suspend their disbelief enough to get into it.