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語源

From link (“hyperlink”) +‎ rot (“process of becoming rotten”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈlɪŋkˌɹɒt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈlɪŋkˌɹɑt/
• ハイフネーション: link‧rot

名詞

linkrot (uncountable)

1. (Internet) The steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed.

   Synonym: URL rot

   • 2021 June 30, Jonathan Zittrain, “The Internet is Rotting”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic‎, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 September 2023:

     It turns out that link rot and content drift are endemic to the web, which is both unsurprising and shockingly risky for a library that has “billions of books and no central filing system.”

別の表記

• link rot

参考

• dead link
• bit rot
• permalink

Further reading

• link rot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “linkrot, n.”, in Collins English Dictionary.