Tauszik discovered one of his projects, Syria Street, had disappeared due to link rot — the gradual decay of URLs and websites as they become broken, inaccessible or deleted over time.

Pew found 38% of pages from 2013 were inaccessible; 15% were inaccessible from 2022 and 8% for 2023, showing that while link rot is something that grows with time, it’s still a problem even for ...

The internet is where much of our modern cultural, societal and political history is stored, but as researchers are discovering, the internet has a big memory problem. Without businesses paying to ...

Digital journalism sites close up shop. Companies pull their online products. Links rot. Files get not found. The cloud, as wags have noted, is really just "someone else's computers." And when ...

DOIs and other persistent identifier schemes address the nagging problem of Web hyperlink decay or 'link rot' in the literature, resulting from citations to Internet references 4. In the scholarly ...