Today’s comments on Tim Bray’s post that I linked to yesterday have been very interesting, both as to the scale of link rot and efforts underway to ameliorate it (you should read those comments if you have not done so).

One commenter on ongoing also linked to two recent posts by Bret Victor; the second one is a incisive examination of the web’s permanence/impermanence problem that I briefly wrestled with before closing yesterday’s post with congratulations to Zeldman. (You should really read Victor’s post.)

Tuesday update: In Tuesday morning’s comments on Bray’s post, Andy Jackson of the British Library links to their study of URLs in their archive, where one of the conclusions is “50% of the content is lost after just one year, with more being lost each subsequent year” (emphasis mine).

http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2015/06/01/the-old-web-follow-up/