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linkrot

noun
/ˈlɪŋkˌɹɒt/UK/ˈlɪŋkˌɹɑt/US

Etymology

From link (“hyperlink”) + rot (“process of becoming rotten”).

  1. inherited from *rutāną✻
  2. inherited from *rotēn✻
  3. inherited from rotian
  4. inherited from roten
  5. compounded as linkrot — “link + rot”

Definitions

  1. The steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed.

    • 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.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for linkrot. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA