The link rot phenomenon that leads to the Internet forgetting things… when it wants

https://ft.pressreader.com/v99e/20260407/281788520616064
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Le phénomène de pourriture des liens qui entraine l’oubli de l’Internet… quand il le souhaite

https://moncarnet.com/2026/04/07/internet-cette-memoire-fragile-qui-choisit-deja-ce-quelle-efface/

#Internet #LinkRot #PourritureDesLiens

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@gunstick @tageblatt mjo dat weist och erëm, datt een sech selwer muss Archiver zouleeën. #linkrot #memoryHole

Releasing .htaccess Punk—a Quick Helper to Check Redirects in .htaccess Files, by @j9t [@frontenddogma]:

https://meiert.com/blog/htaccess-punk/

#packages #apache #redirecting #linkrot #quality

Releasing .htaccess Punk—a Quick Helper to Check Redirects in .htaccess Files · Jens Oliver Meiert

Have you checked your .htaccess on broken redirects today?

Chi dice cambiamento di url, dice link rotti!

Il sito del Patrimonio dell'Emilia-Romagna oggi è inaccessibile nei Collegamenti esterni automatici su Wikipedia (derivati da #Wikidata).

Bel modo per festeggiare le Giornate FAI di primavera. 😬

#GiornateFAI #LinkRot #EmiliaRomagna

Machines can only remember what remains.

The popular story about the internet is that it remembers everything.
My experience has been the opposite.

Websites disappear. Forums vanish. Domains expire. Entire conversations fade away.

What remains becomes the record.

https://realityfragments.com/2026/03/10/machines-can-only-remember-what-remains/

#ArtificialIntelligence #InternetHistory #DigitalMemory #LinkRot #Technology
#writing

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Archive.is RFC 5 - Wikipedia

Bezeichnend, traurig oder einfach nur lustig, dass die schemaLocation des epicur-Metadatenformats (http://www.persistent-identifier.de/xepicur/version1.0/xepicur.xsd) zur Verwaltung persistenter Referenzierung (URN) jetzt ausgerechnet zu einem Online-Casino führt?

#persistentidentifier #metadata #linkrot

We've teamed up with Automattic to fight link rot on the open web. Check out the new Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer for WordPress. The free plugin preserves pages, redirects broken links to archived versions, and helps ensure the web keeps its memory.

“It’s very important that websites have a memory," said Alexander Rose of Automattic. "When links go dead, in effect, the truth goes dead—especially in the age of AI,”

Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/04/inside-the-new-wayback-machine-plugin-for-wordpress/

#linkrot

#Development #Approaches
Snapshot testing to keep URLs cool · An automated way to prevent broken links https://ilo.im/16a4ml

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#Testing #Automation #URLs #LinkRot #Websites #Blogs #HTTP #Git #WebDev #Backend

Cool URLs don’t change with snapshot testing