The Internet Is Rotting

Numerous links to web sites from court decisions, academic publications and other documents are evaporating from the internet permanently because there is no central storage location or protocol.

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Our studies are in line with others. As far back as 2001, a team at Princeton University studied the persistence of web references in scientific articles, finding that the raw number of URLs contained in academic articles was increasing but that many of the links were broken, including 53 percent of those in the articles they had collected from 1994. Thirteen years later, six researchers created a data set of more than 3.5 million scholarly articles about science, technology, and medicine, and determined that one in five no longer points to its originally intended source. In 2016, an analysis with the same data set found that 75 percent of all references had drifted.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...nation/619320/

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