Gregory's Server@liaizon my point was that contrasting the lack of apparent longevity of things being made/designed today with things that have lasted a long time may be a red herring or even a dead end.
i'm not sure that the things that have lasted a long time generally have longevity designed into them. i suspect it's mostly an accident, and not a design decision. that would in turn suggest that trying to design for longevity may be a fools errand.
how much this is true of computer-related stuff .. unclear
@PaulDavisTheFirst I started this thread talking about a specific point in the longevity of the fediverse's design which is the reliance on domain names. There are other parts of this system that are designed around things that have temporality designed INTO them. When data availability is linked to a yearly bill being payed to a corporation, the chances that that link will no longer work in a few years is very high.