linkrot
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See also: link rot
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From link (“hyperlink”) + rot (“process of becoming rotten”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɪŋkˌɹɒt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɪŋkˌɹɑt/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: link‧rot
Noun
[edit]linkrot (uncountable)
- (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.”
Alternative forms
[edit]Translations
[edit]steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- link rot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “linkrot, n.”, in Collins English Dictionary.