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  1. Sep 2024
    1. for - link rot - digital decay - internet is emphemeral - dead links - from - Verge article on digital decay and link rot

      from - Verge article on Link Rot - https://hyp.is/n9nmpHdbEe-NPHOh3n31PA/www.theverge.com/2021/5/21/22447690/link-rot-research-new-york-times-domain-hijacking

      for - digital delay stats - Pew Research

      summary - That digital decay and link rot are digital facts of life means that annotating information on the page that is relevant for you to preserve is a good practice. - It may appear redundant but if that page disappears in the future, you will be glad you have preserved it in a place accessible to you - in your annotations!

    1. for - Link rot study - on NY Times archive - show how pervasive it is - stats - link rot - NY Times study - digital decay - link rot - internet is ephemeral - dead links

      for - digital delay stats - Pew Research

      summary - That digital decay and link rot are digital facts of life means that annotating information on the page that is relevant for you to preserve is a good practice. - It may appear redundant but if that page disappears in the future, you will be glad you have preserved it in a place accessible to you - in your annotations!

    2. The study looked at over 550,000 articles, which contained over 2.2 million links to external websites. It found that 72 percent of those links were “deep,” or pointing to a specific page rather than a general website. Predictably, it found that, as time went on, links were more likely to be dead: 6 percent of links in 2018 articles were inaccessible, while a whopping 72 percent of links from 1998 were dead.

      for - stats - link rot - digital decay study - NY Times - 550,000 articles - 2.2 million links - 6% dead in 2018 articles - 72% dead in 1998 articles.

  2. Aug 2022
  3. May 2022
    1. I like to keep things on the web if I can, permanently archived, because you never know when somebody will find them useful or interesting anyway.

      But Semantic Web Tips http://infomesh.net/2001/08/swtips/ is returning 404...

  4. Mar 2022
    1. wabac.js 1.0 also included a built-in UI component. This version is still available at https://wab.ac/

      Nah.

  5. Jan 2022
    1. You can also use YQL—the Yahoo Query Language—to retrieve the same data.

      Looks like it's dead. The link goes nowhere.

  6. Dec 2021
  7. Oct 2021
    1. How OpenVSCode Server turns VS Code into a web IDE

      This news item was submitted only 17 days ago, and yet it's already returning a 404. This is a casualty of the "our code host's presentation of our repo is our website".

      As of this writing (i.e. commit fb662ab0), the working link is https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/blob/docs/sourcedive.snb.md.

  8. Sep 2021
  9. Aug 2021