Definition of "linkrot" [linkrot]

• The steady increase in number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed. (noun)

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• "Waxy. filthy light thief: Jakob Neilsen coined the term linkrot broadly as links that originally worked but are now broken."
• "I wrote about linkrot and the problems with online permanence back in August."
• "Our cavalier refusal to ask these questions only exacerbates the problem of linkrot."