linkrot

An HTTP 404 error on the Whitehouse.gov website. Such errors can be due to linkrot.

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋkˌɹɒt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋkˌɹɑt/

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• Hyphenation: link‧rot

linkrot (uncountable)

1. (Internet) The steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed.
   • 2021 June 30, Jonathan Zittrain, “The Internet is Rotting”, in The Atlantic‎, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-06:

     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.”

• link rot

• dead link
• bit rot
• permalink

• link rot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “linkrot, n.”, in Collins English Dictionary.