Whatever happened to chronology?
There are many aspects to organising data: alphabetical, numerical, hierarchical, and chronological for example. It's that last one that seems to have vanished, at least from the Internet.
When you search for some information you get many, many, often too many returns. "How do I do this?" becomes one hundred and thirty six thousand explanations, some dating back to when the World Wide Web was in its infancy. Yet the distinction of how old that information is often gets either ignored or not related at all. Why should this matter? Because a post from 2012 about how to do something on a computer system is no longer relevant in 2026 - the OS has changed, the program has changed, the hardware has changed. In fact all those changes would have first occurred within 6 months of when the post is dated. The information isn't helpful on a newer system and may be frustratingly so for someone who is not experienced at deciphering differences.
Another place this ignoring of time occurs is in web sites themselves, wherein even corporations manage to not keep up with their own latest releases. The worst of them would be news outlets, which keep news stories front and centre even though the actual event happened last month. This can cause the reader to think it's a new story about a similar event evoking a response of "What, again?" Apparently these people in the news business don't understand what "news" means.
It was better in the old days when you picked up today's edition of The Daily Bear and everything in it had been freshly set in type the night before. There's no reason they can't do this with electronic editions, in fact it's even easier than setting type (even with a Compugraphic machine), they simply don't bother.
Though why this surprises me I don't know since they can't be bothered with spelling or grammar checking either. The whole sloppiness of the reporting causes one to lose faith in the accuracy of the stories conveyed. Which even cursory fact-checking tends to indicate such disbelief is entirely justified.
Dateline:
Rupert Totter, The Daily Bear
In Mudville, Estonia June 32, 2028