A new report from the Pew Research Center finds that an alarming amount of the content on the World Wide Web is no longer accessible a decade later.
The study says that 38 percent of the webpages available in 2013 no longer can be accessed.
Among the reports findings
23 percent of news webpages contain at least one broken link, as do 21% of webpages from government sites. News sites with a high level of site traffic and those with less are about equally likely to contain broken links. Local-level government webpages (those belonging to city governments) are especially likely to have broken links.
54 of Wikipedia pages contain at least one link in their “References” section that points to a page that no longer exists.
Nearly one-in-five tweets are no longer publicly visible on the site just months after being posted.
Tweets don’t always disappear forever, though. Some 6% of the tweets we collected disappeared and then became available again at a later point.
This is a reminder to those of us who use the web as a kind of scrapbook of our lives that it isn’t necessarily more durable than the old-fashioned kind.
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