Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out
A complete crawl of every restored link from 2009 to 2014 found that 76.7% no longer return a loading page.
Summary
A recent analysis of over 657,000 links from the early web reveals that nearly 77% are now dead, illustrating the rapid decline of online content from just a decade ago. This study sheds light on the fragility of digital history and the challenges of preserving it.
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