jonathan w. y. gray 🐨May 27
what is the datafied web? how to study it? and reimagine it? we chat in Internet Histories journal ✨🐰🦔🐨🐢🦉🐿️🦙🦆💬 https://jonathangray.org/2026/05/18/datafied-web
with @nthylstrup Miglė Bareikytė, Carolin Gerlitz, @sebgiessmann @annehelmond Ian Milligan & Valérie Schafer.
come for the datafied web - stay for the AI #slop #adtech #deepfakes #bots #leaks #trolls #bubbles #linkrot #fintech #osint #dataloss #softwaredecay #venturecapital #platformlabour #webarchives #diywebsites #algorithms #surveillancecapitalism #poeticcomputation & more 😋
article on “the datafied web” in Internet Histories

An article on “the datafied web” that I co-authored has just been published in the Internet Histories journal.

Jonathan W. Y. Gray
DigitalNaiv = Stefan PfeifferMay 27
241 Newsportale blockieren bereits die Web-Crawler des Internet Archive — darunter Guardian und NYT. Ausgerechnet Medienhäuser, die von der Beweismittelkette des offenen Webs profitieren, sägen daran. Carla Siepmann @CarlaSiepmann auf @netzpolitik_feed mit einem wichtigen Text. #LinkRot #InternetArchive #Journalismus https://netzpolitik.org/2026/breakpoint-das-internet-verrottet/
Das Internet verrottet

Tote Links, gelöschte Webpages und geänderte URLs machen das Internet zu einem Ort der Sackgassen. Wie Informationen im Netz verschwinden, erinnert an einen der berühmtesten Bibliotheksbrände der Geschichte. Doch allzu oft sind es nicht Katastrophen, die Wissen vernichten, sondern Desinteresse.

netzpolitik.org
Frontend DogmaMay 22

hihtml, by @j9t [@frontenddogma]:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/hihtml?ref=frontenddogma.com

#packages #npm #html #conformance #links #linkrot #minification #htmlminifier #optimization #quality

hihtml

The HTML supertool to validate, link-check, and minify web pages. Latest version: 1.3.2, last published: 4 days ago. Start using hihtml in your project by running `npm i hihtml`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using hihtml.

npm
SoonLeeNZMay 7

2006: "Be careful what you share online. The Internet is forever!"

2026: "Dammit, none of those old links work anymore!"

#internet #linkRot

Show threadDominykas BlyžėMay 2

Just to keep this here, in prep for #linkrot:

> There are some patriotic citizens who sincerely hope that America will win the war - but they also hope that Russia will lose it; and there are some who hope that America will win the war, but that England will lose it; and there are some who hope that America will win the war, but that Roosevelt will lose it.

Elmer Davis

Jens Oliver MeiertMay 1

Just went after hundreds of URLs that didn’t work anymore (updating them to point to archive.org).

While this is routine work for every site owner, it’s astonishing to see how many peers and orgs throw away links—some of them with excellent profiles, others the result of hard work of DevRel teams.

Extra pain to see this when they didn’t own the domain (GitHub, Medium, some such).

Make a point to always set up redirects. It protects your work—and saves others some time.

#links #linkrot #web

Show threadAdrian SeidelmanApr 29

Been in touch with some "Archivist" working on a comprehensive archive of all the Cybersix material...

They plan to release like a BitTorrent or something to make it easy to share and prevent "Link Rot"...

Excuse me, I'm not that technical...

#CyberSix #Archival #Preservation #MediaPreservation #Comic #Cartoon #Anime #LiveAction #TV #Series #BitTorrent #LinkRot

C.Apr 26

Link rot continues to be a real scourge on the 'net; in fact, it's worse now than it was when people starting warning about it 30 years ago.

That's why I'm proud that many pages on my main site have not changed in 20 years.

More seriously, donate to the Internet Archive, so they can preserve more of the 'net for posterity.

#wink #LinkRot #web #ArchiveOrg #InternetArchive

Internet Archive Blogs | Updates from the Internet Archive [Unofficial]Apr 23

Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/gone-but-not-forgotten-recovering-the-dead-web/

Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web | Internet Archive Blogs

Dr. Sawood AlamApr 23

A Pew Research Center study found that 38% of webpages from a decade ago, and about 25% of pages sampled across the decade, are now inaccessible; our analysis shows that the Wayback Machine has rescued roughly 15% of those otherwise dead pages.

https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/gone-but-not-forgotten-recovering-the-dead-web/

#linkrot
@internetarchive