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Games for Music wiki / G4M<p>Another page that sadly went away from the internet is kidsplaybook.com which presented a broad collection of <a href="https://tabletop.vip/tags/childrenGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>childrenGames</span></a> from a few corners of the Earth.</p><p>The <a href="https://tabletop.vip/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>youtube</span></a> channel with videos is still up, and is cool, but who knows for how long...<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@julesoosterwegel/videos" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/@julesoosterwegel/</span><span class="invisible">videos</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tabletop.vip/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a></p>
Alexander Winkler<p>Weiß jemand, wie man id_main und id_bestand auf aktuelle Archivalien im <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/bundesarchiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bundesarchiv</span></a> mappt? Auf <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> gibt es einige tote Links, die diesem Schema folgen:</p><p><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Weblinksuche&amp;limit=500&amp;offset=0&amp;target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bundesarchiv.de%2Fbestaende_findmittel%2Fbestaendeuebersicht%2Fbody.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t</span><span class="invisible">itle=Spezial:Weblinksuche&amp;limit=500&amp;offset=0&amp;target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bundesarchiv.de%2Fbestaende_findmittel%2Fbestaendeuebersicht%2Fbody.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/archiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archiv</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a></p>
Alexander Winkler<p>si potrà mai quantificare quanti santi sono stati tirati giù a causa dell'introduzione della domain "cultura.gov.it"?</p><p>Ho l'impressione che non funzionano più indirizzi mail, link ecc. quasi nella metà dei casi 🤯</p><p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a></p>
Andy Jackson<p>Goodnight <a href="https://pcdm.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pcdm.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. We will (probably) remember you. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250122181358/https://pcdm.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2025012218</span><span class="invisible">1358/https://pcdm.org/</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/LinkRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkRot</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigiPres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigiPres</span></a></p>
dorotaC<p>I've been browsing <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/webcomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webcomics</span></a> again recently.</p><p>They usually include author's commentary, links to inspirations and collaborators, even Wikipedia pictures.</p><p>It's astonishing how many links from 2002-2008 have rotten. Even a Wikiedia pic of a Japanese emperor ("Not PD picture").</p><p>Sites which are still up are often stripped down to the basics, the forum and community gone.</p><p>I'm beginning to think: if you care about the content, don't just link to it. Copy and host it.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a></p>
Egon Willighagen<p>I have an open (educational) resource around the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@cdk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cdk</span></a></span> and one GitHub action checks the links. Since I cite literature where that makes sense, a good number of HTTP links are to scientific literature.</p><p>Those DOI links fail with the error in the screenshot. Link rot is a thing, but when (expensive) publishers disallow me to check, they signal they don't care about link rot.</p><p><a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/linkRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkRot</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/cheminformatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cheminformatics</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/openscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openscience</span></a></p>
poleguy<p>A new blog post for 2025. Very brief. There was a rotten link on wikipedia on port knocking. I re-hosted the file because it was very hard to find. The update to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a> got flagged by a filter as potential self promotion. I'm not sure it'll stick or not. I'm not sure what the rules even are these days.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://poleguy.com/blog/port-knocking.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">poleguy.com/blog/port-knocking</span><span class="invisible">.html</span></a></p>
Cеmrе Kаrаkаs<p>Link seals provide a quick soft-check utility for link health on your web spaces.</p><p>It's inspired by a blog post from Terence Eden about managing link rot on a website.</p><p>It proposes a very simple concept of a seal key, seal function and seal checker. </p><p>Read more on</p><p><a href="https://mistystep.org/blog/testable-links" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mistystep.org/blog/testable-li</span><span class="invisible">nks</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/websecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>websecurity</span></a></p>
Terence Eden<p>I now have a page which automatically calculates how bad <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a> is on my blog.</p><p><a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/link-rot/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">shkspr.mobi/blog/link-rot/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
pablolarah<p>✉️ Cool URLs don't change (but they don't have to last forever)<br>by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@cferdinandi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cferdinandi</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/url" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>url</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinkRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkRot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webdev</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://gomakethings.com/cool-urls-dont-change-but-they-dont-have-to-last-forever/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gomakethings.com/cool-urls-don</span><span class="invisible">t-change-but-they-dont-have-to-last-forever/</span></a></p>
Michael Cervieri<p>38% of web pages from 2013 are no longer available. raise your hand if you contributed to that 😉</p><p><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024</span><span class="invisible">/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.tree.dance/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://social.tree.dance/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a></p>
Jeanne (spellboundblog)<p>Interesting essay looking at link rot and disappearing online content from the perspective of a content creator: </p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/24321569/internet-decay-link-rot-web-archive-deleted-culture" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/24321569/internet</span><span class="invisible">-decay-link-rot-web-archive-deleted-culture</span></a></p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/DigitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalHumanities</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/content" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>content</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/WebArchiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebArchiving</span></a></p>
Jake in the desert<p>Great piece about the disappearing internet, link rot, digital storage, all of it. A must-read: <a href="https://archive.is/vND5N" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.is/vND5N</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>As for archiving -- a lot is saved on <a href="https://archive.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>, but even MORE is not, and is disappearing- as the article gets into. That's why I like to use things like <a href="https://archive.is" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.is</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> to save websites and articles. </p><p>Gotta do what we can to preserve. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/DigitalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LinkRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkRot</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ArchiveDotOrg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArchiveDotOrg</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DigitalStorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalStorage</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>future</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PhysicalMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhysicalMedia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BackUpYourStuff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BackUpYourStuff</span></a></p>
Stefan Ihringer<p><a href="https://mograph.social/tags/LinkRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkRot</span></a> is so sad. I just went through some old HTML and CSS bookmarks and so many sites are defunct. I remember them being helpful at some point ("how to style thumbnails with captions?") and their authors put lots of effort into them. But now these pages are gone, the knowledge lost to time...</p>
Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭<p>Micro pet peeve: URLs that return an HTTP 404/4xx error if you omit the “www.” part of the hostname.</p><p>A little bit less annoying pet peeve: URLs that work with or without the “www.” part but do not redirect to a canonical hostname.</p><p><a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/URLs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>URLs</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/URIs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>URIs</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/CoolURIs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoolURIs</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/CoolURLs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoolURLs</span></a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/HTTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTTP</span></a></p>
Daniele de Rigo<p>5/</p><p>In 2023, [4] focused on <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/LinkRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkRot</span></a> concerning website-based references in academic papers. </p><p>"In <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> papers, citations are integral data and information integrators that link facts and statements with sources [...]. Over time, [...] the URLs of web-based references might become dysfunctional (i.e., links may become broken), or the URL might disappear altogether if the website shuts down or ceases to exist, a phenomenon known as <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/ReferenceRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReferenceRot</span></a>" [4]</p>
Alexander Winkler<p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linkrot</span></a> bei der Bundesregierung: Die Standardantwort auf die meisten <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a>-Links zur <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bund.de/@Bundesregierung" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Bundesregierung</span></a></span> ist, wie es scheint, 404: <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Weblinksuche/www.bundesregierung.de" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:</span><span class="invisible">Weblinksuche/www.bundesregierung.de</span></a></p><p>Da muss man dann wieder einmal auf Amtshilfe durch das <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>internetarchive</span></a></span> hoffen ...</p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/InternetArchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternetArchive</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DigitalArchiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArchiving</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LinkRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkRot</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/InternetHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternetHistory</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DigitalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPreservation</span></a>: "Based on our 2023 crawl of the 27.3M URLs (that were first archived by IA between 1996-2021), we made the following high-level findings.</p><p>1. The Median Lifespan of a URL is 2.3 Years</p><p>We measured the median lifespan of a URL to be 2.3 years (calculated on URLs that were dead in 2023). However, we observed very different behavior between root URLs and deep links.</p><p>- For root URLs, the median lifespan is 8.8 years. <br> <br> - 10% of the root URLs died within 1 year, but 20% lived for over 20 years before dying.<br> - However, for root URLs that were first archived in the last 10 years of our study (2012-2021), the median lifespan was only 2.6 years, indicating overall shorter lifespans for newer webpages.</p><p>- For deep links, the median lifespan is 1.3 years. Over 50% of the deep links died within 1 year, and only 4% lasted for over 10 years before dying.</p><p>2. Only 35.3% of the webpages were still alive in 2023</p><p>Only 35.3% of the webpages were still alive (terminated in a HTTP 2xx status after following any redirects) in 2023. </p><p>- However, nearly half of the URLs first archived between 1996-2000 were still alive, but this is likely affected by the large proportion of root URLs in our dataset in the early years.</p><p>- For those URLs first archived between 2012-2021, about 40% were still alive in 2023, for both root URLs and deep links.</p><p>3. The remaining 64.7% are considered dead</p><p>We further categorized the dead webpages based on HTTP level responses:</p><p>- HTTP 4xx (25.1%) - These returned HTTP 4xx status codes, meaning that the webpages were gone or inaccessible, but the webserver was still alive.<br>- Error (39.6%) - These resulted in a DNS failure, TCP connection timeout, HTTP 5xx status, invalid redirection, or some other error state."</p><p><a href="https://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/09/2024-09-20-some-urls-are-immortal-most.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ws-dl.blogspot.com/2024/09/202</span><span class="invisible">4-09-20-some-urls-are-immortal-most.html</span></a></p>
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p>How the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WaybackMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaybackMachine</span></a> is trying to solve the web’s growing <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/linkrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linkrot</span></a> problem<br>For nearly as long as we’ve had a consumer internet, we’ve had the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/InternetArchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternetArchive</span></a>, a massive mission to identify and back up our online world into a vast digital library. It was founded in 1996, and in 2001, it launched the Wayback Machine, an interface that lets anyone call up snapshots of sites and look at how they used to be and what they used to say at a given moment in time. <br><a href="https://www.theverge.com/24236556/wayback-machine-linkrot-internet-archive-web-ai-mark-graham-decoder-interview-podcast" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/24236556/wayback-</span><span class="invisible">machine-linkrot-internet-archive-web-ai-mark-graham-decoder-interview-podcast</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LinkRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkRot</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DigitalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DigitalArchiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArchiving</span></a>: "A quarter of all web pages that existed at some point between 2013 and 2023 now… don't. That's according to a recent study by Pew Research Center, a think tank based in Washington, DC, which raised the alarm of our disappearing digital history. Researchers found the problem is more acute the older a web page is: 38% of web pages that Pew tried to access that existed in 2013 no longer function. But it's also an issue for more recent publications. Some 8% of web pages published at some point 2023 were gone by October that same year.</p><p>This isn't just a concern for history buffs and internet obsessives. According to the study, one in five government websites contains at least one broken link. Pew found more than half of Wikipedia articles have a broken link in their references section, meaning the evidence backing up the online encyclopaedia's information is slowly disintegrating.</p><p>But thanks to the work of the Internet Archive, not all those dead links are totally inaccessible. For decades, the Archive's Wayback Machine project has sent armies of robots to crawl through the cascading labyrinths of the internet. These systems download functional copies of websites as they change over time – often capturing the same pages multiple times in a single day – and make them available to public free of charge.</p><p>"When we then went and looked at how many of those URLs were available in the Wayback Machine, we found that two-thirds of those were available in a way," he says. In that sense, the Internet Archive is doing what it set out to do – it's saving records of online society for posterity."</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240912-the-archivists-battling-to-save-the-internet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/future/article/2024091</span><span class="invisible">2-the-archivists-battling-to-save-the-internet</span></a></p>