linkrot
nounUK /ˈlɪŋkˌɹɒt/ · US /ˈlɪŋkˌɹɑt/
Etymology From link (“hyperlink”) + rot (“process of becoming rotten”).
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Internet The steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed.
- It turns out that link rot and content drift are endemic to the web, which is both unsurprising and shockingly risky for a library that has “billions of books and no central filing system.”2021 June 30, Jonathan Zittrain, “The Internet is Rotting”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2023: