• MangoKangaroo@beehaw.org
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    Wikipedia says that The Onion has had a website since '96, so it’s definitely possible! (Also, TIL The Onion has existed since 1988.)

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      I knew the onion is old, but didn’t imagine they would keep a website with old articles still up!

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        Why not? It costs nothing, appart from transforming the old format into something the current site can work with, or more likely, have the old site support tbe old format.

        • Mars@beehaw.org
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          Some media organizations have started nuking old articles to please the Google algorithm