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For link rot on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Link rot.
A rotten link usually leads to an error message
Link rot (also called link death, link breaking, or reference rot) is the phenomenon of hyperlinks tending over time to cease to point to their originally targeted file, web page, or server due to that resource being relocated to a new address or becoming permanently unavailable. A link that no longer points to its target, often called a broken, dead, or orphaned link, is a specific form of dangling pointer.
The rate of link rot is a subject of study and research due to its significance to the internet's ability to preserve information. Estimates of that rate vary dramatically between studies. Information professionals have warned that link rot could make important archival data disappear, potentially impacting the legal system and scholarship.
Linkrot (also called link death, link breaking, or reference rot) is the phenomenon of hyperlinks tending over time to cease to point to their originally...
Bit rot, data degradation Software rot, a form of bit rot Disk rot, also called CD Rot or DVD rot, the physical decay of optical disks Linkrot, hyperlinks...
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permanent link is a URL that is intended to remain unchanged for many years into the future, yielding a hyperlink that is less susceptible to linkrot. Permalinks...
Bit rot may refer to: "Bit Rot", a short story by Charles Stross Data rot, the decay of electromagnetic charge in a computer's storage Disc rot, the deterioration...
Look up rots in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rots or ROTS may refer to: Rots, Calvados, a commune in Basse-Normandie, France Daan Rots (born 2001)...
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significant percentage of web addresses go "dead", a process often called linkrot. Using a persistent identifier can slow or stop this process. An important...
daily viewers, although by 2017, many of the website's links suffered from linkrot, causing the URLs to no longer function as originally intended. From the...
on the long-term solvency of users' hosted images face the challenge of linkrot. In April 2014, five years after it was founded, Imgur raised $40 million...
shortened link, and can be made private. Internet portal Country code top-level domain Domain Name System Emoji domain Generic top-level domain Linkrot List...
services. Internet portal Computer programming portal Bulletin board system Linkrot Lists of websites Site map Web content management system Web design Web...
airline, ICAO code Rot (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title ROT. If an internal link led you here, you may...
when locations or other metadata attributes change. This helps to prevent linkrot, as changes in the information resource (such as location) need only be...
in a data storage device. It is also referred to as data decay, data rot or bit rot. This results in a decline in data quality over time, even when the...
the Vietnam War Jungle Rot (band) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Jungle rot. If an internal link led you here, you may...
the Internet to join the military, the site eventually fell victim to linkrot. In the fall of 1998, Van Aarle was at a trade show with Jeff Vanzetti...
Rot Front (German: Red Front) may refer to: Rot Front (confectionery brand), a confectionery factory in Russia Rot-Front, a German village in Kyrgyzstan...
rot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Brown rot may refer to the following diseases: Wood-decay fungus, fungi that digest moist wood, causing rot,...
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of a Lifetime". New York Daily News. "The San Francisco Chronicle".[dead link] Dillon, Nancy (May 6, 2009). "Gloves Are Off! 'Thriller' Star Sues for Royalties"...
Fruit rot disease may refer to: Phomopsis leaf caused in grapes by Phomopsis viticola; Kole-roga caused in coconut and betel nut by Phytophthora palmivora;...
being revised, removed, or disappear for other reasons, an effect known as linkrot. The site no longer accepts new archive requests; old archive snapshots...
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