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Someone, I think it was Copyblogger and others, convinced people that to create "evergreen content" you should take dates off articles and blog posts. The web has been worse off for this advice.

That's what repos and wikis are for IMO.

Even while you're hunting for that date you're improving their metrics :(

Having a date on the article is not an advantage here.

Unfortunately I don't see this going away anytime soon. Something like a browser plugin that notified you of article date could be helpful, but would face challenges in mass adoption.

Have you noticed the general reduction in usefulness/efficiency of web pages? I sure have. Pages turn a 100 word answer into a 10,000 word essay with 5 videos.

I see that so much on technical articles. It really does make a difference if the content was published in 2007 or 2016.

Well that settles it. We have the Encrypt the Web folks. I'd like to see a Version The Web

Also, footnotes citing sources.