Science
New research shows how many important links on the web get lost to time – The Verge
Researchers looked at The New York Times’ online catalog to see how many of its links now point to nothing, and the results were surprisingly bad. The issue affects…
Important context and proof, like tears in rain
Illustration by William Joel / The Verge
A quarter of the deep links in The New York Times articles are now rotten, leading to completely inaccessible pages, according to a team of researchers from Harvard Law School, who worked with the Times digital team. They found that this problem affected over half of the articles containing links in the NYTs catalog going back to 1996, illustrating the problem of link rot and how difficult it is for context…
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