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English

WOTD – 28 September 2023

Etymology

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

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

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋkˌɹɒt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋkˌɹɑt/
Audio (US): (file)
Hyphenation: link‧rot

Noun

linkrot (uncountable)

(Internet) The steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed.
Synonym: URL rot
- 2021 June 30, Jonathan Zittrain, “The Internet is Rotting”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 September 2023:
  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.”

Alternative forms

link rot

Translations

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

Arabic: رابط مكسور
Chinese:
Mandarin: 失效連結 / 失效连结 (shīxiào liánjié)
Dutch: linkrot
Estonian: lingikõdu, lingimädanik
Finnish: linkkirutto
Indonesian: pranala mati
Japanese: リンク切れ (リンクぎれ, rinku-gire)
Korean: 깨진 링크 (kkaejin ringkeu), 죽은 링크 (jugeun ringkeu)
Macedonian: изуми́рање на вр́ската f (izumíranje na vŕskata)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lenkeråte
Persian: پیوند مرده
Polish: martwy link m
Portuguese: apodrecimento de links m, apodrecimento de referência f, quebra de links m
Russian: вымира́ние ссы́лок f (vymiránije ssýlok)
Swedish: länkröta (sv)
Turkish: bağlantı bozulması, bağlantı kırılması, bağlantı ölümü
Ukrainian: вимирання посилань (vymyrannja posylanʹ)
Urdu: مردہ روابط

See also

Further reading

link rot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
“linkrot, n.”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.

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