linkrot

See also: link rot

English

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Etymology

link +‎ rot

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈlɪŋkɹɒt/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

linkrot (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) The steady increase in number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed.
    • 2021 June 30, Jonathan Zittrain, “The Internet Is Rotting”, in The Atlantic‎:
      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.”

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