linkrot

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An HTTP 404 error on the Whitehouse.gov website. Such errors can be due to linkrot.

From link (hyperlink) +‎ rot (process of becoming rotten).

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linkrot (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) The steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed.
    Synonym: URL rot
    • 2021 June 30, Jonathan Zittrain, “The Internet is Rotting”, in The Atlantic[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-06:
      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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