I think the fundamental problem here is that URLs locate resources. We find the desired content by finding its location given by an address. Now what server or content lives on that address may change from time to time or may even disappear. This leads to broken links.
The problem with linking to Wayback Machine is that we are still writing archive.org URLs still linking to Wayback Machine servers. What guarantee is there that those archive.org links will not break in future?
It would have been nice if the web were designed to be content-addressable. That is, the identifier or string we use to access a content addresses the content directly, not a location where the content lives. There is good effort going on in this area in the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) project but I don't think the mainstream content providers on the Internet are going to move to IPFS anytime soon.
The problem with linking to Wayback Machine is that we are still writing archive.org URLs still linking to Wayback Machine servers. What guarantee is there that those archive.org links will not break in future?
It would have been nice if the web were designed to be content-addressable. That is, the identifier or string we use to access a content addresses the content directly, not a location where the content lives. There is good effort going on in this area in the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) project but I don't think the mainstream content providers on the Internet are going to move to IPFS anytime soon.