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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think we tend to overestimate how solid things are, even in the digital world. The concept of "bit-rot", for instance, shows how online links degrade over time as sites move or, say, a major website preparing for an IPO enrages its users who then delete or edit all their comments in protest (lol, like that'd ever happen).

Semi-relevant xkcd

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bit rot? Forgive an old Gen X gamer, but that's a term I heard thrown around in the 1990s to refer to the steady decay of optical media; CD-ROMs and such. Has the definition been changed? Or perhaps addended?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oops, good catch - "link rot" was the term I was thinking of, should have wiki'd it before so confidently posting.