They have no obligation to serve old stuff indefinitely. If you like an article, it's on you to save it, just like people in the old times would keep newspaper cutouts about their favorite band and VHS cassettes of interviews etc.
Yes, things are becoming ephemeral. Probably good. Been like that forever except for some naive time window of strange expectations in the 2000s decade. We shouldn't keep rolling ahead of us a growing ball of useless stuff. Shed the the useless and keep the valuable. If nobody remembers otherwise, then probably it's not a thing of value.
The problem is that it's no longer possible to find it. Lots of early internet history is lost or hard to find - despite the fact that storage space is not an issue these days.
Maybe. I'm of two minds. Valuable things stand the test of time, they get retold and reused and remembered and kept alive. It's always been like that. On the other hand this could be construed as a defense of oral tradition above writing, but writing has had immense impact on our capabilities and technological progress historically, including the preservation of ancient texts. But I'm not sure we'd be so much better off if we had access to all the gossip news of the time of Plato. Not to mention that forgetting, retelling, rediscovering, discussing stuff anew allows for a kind of evolution and mutation that can regularize and robustify the knowledge.
So we need some preservation, but indiscriminate blind hoarding of all info isn't necessarily the best.
Yes, things are becoming ephemeral. Probably good. Been like that forever except for some naive time window of strange expectations in the 2000s decade. We shouldn't keep rolling ahead of us a growing ball of useless stuff. Shed the the useless and keep the valuable. If nobody remembers otherwise, then probably it's not a thing of value.