New report from Pew finds 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later. This research underscores how critical web archiving efforts are. www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.
Wow, this post is getting a lot of attention! If you are concerned about link rot you may be in in my book The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation -> www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Oh thank god my old blogs are gone.
Oh I know all about this.
Honestly stunned it's as low as 38%
this just gave me the jolt I needed to make my donation to the internet archive and soon wikipedia
Time to retrain some librarians? They're getting laid off anyway :(
Also, print yourself a PDF of anything you wish to have for longer than today.
tell me about it. I've been designing web sites since '95 and 99.9% of my life's work is long gone