One of the worst ones is when you come across an issue with, say, writing code for something specific and then the link goes to a mailing list post from 2002 (no joke, happened to me twice this week). Turns out the data is outdated, too. It’s lame.

I think this is one of the dangers of the Internet. There’s so much useful data out there, but all it takes is for someone to not pay their hosting fees or get sick of keeping up their site and it’s all gone.

At least with books, what’s in print stays in print and someone, somewhere usually has a copy!