Link rot

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title: Link rot
text: Link 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 th
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category slug: encyclopedia
description: Phenomenon of URLs tending to cease functioning
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot
date created: 2003-11-13T18:08:55Z
date modified: 2024-09-06T13:56:23Z
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