> I have hundreds of bookmarks that I may not be using right now but end up being useful years later.
I pulled up an old bookmark file that I had backed up on CD-R and pretty much every single link was dead. So at best, it was just a memory of something that I thought was worth saving at one point and might go back to someday. So more like what you said: "history of things I've found that are interesting" but not being able to use them to get the website (unless it's in Wayback Machine perhaps).
Weird. For me it's quite rare that I run into a dead link. I think I ran into one Youtube music video recently that was taken down for Copyright, and an old niche forum that went down. That's about it. The rest are still valid.
I pulled up an old bookmark file that I had backed up on CD-R and pretty much every single link was dead. So at best, it was just a memory of something that I thought was worth saving at one point and might go back to someday. So more like what you said: "history of things I've found that are interesting" but not being able to use them to get the website (unless it's in Wayback Machine perhaps).