Beware Hollywood's Digital Demolition

You used to be able to watch every episode of The Daily Show on the Comedy Central website. They also made the close captions of each episode indexable by search engines so you could find an episode based on remembered fragments of what a guest or Jon might have said and it worked really well.

I remember finding clips I'd never seen requested by people on /r/DailyShow just based on their description but then at some point Google changed focus from finding stuff to answering questions and while the close captions were still in the source of the videos' pages, they weren't coming up on Google searches.

Now you can't even watch the episodes. It makes me sad, how much the internet has changed and continues to change but I guess change is inevitable.

There is a torrent of all the Jon episodes of The Daily Show and maybe the other things the article mentions are similarly archived by a handful of enthusiasts but I still think it's sad.