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This is pure speculation, but I wonder if, as climate change causes breakdowns in infrastructure, combined with companies pumping the internet full of useless and misleading content, if we aren't going to see a rise in web practices that are now seen as bad but do have uses.
For example, I've been told to avoid posting web content as PDFs because they're cumbersome and there's almost always a more user-friendly way to present the information. But if your users have unreliable access to the internet and electricity, PDFs actually can be useful.
Similarly, I've been told never to maintain lists of links—a "link farm"—because they're difficult to keep up to date and users are almost always going to go to search engines for that kind of information. But if the search engine results become full of useless, AI-generated crap, it could be helpful to have pages of links on particular topics that have been vetted and curated by humans.
Just some thoughts!