Looking for an online article from 2013? It may have disappeared, new study says | Euronews:
If you’re looking for an online article from 2013, there’s a chance it may have disappeared.
New research from the Pew Research Centre in the US concludes that 38 per cent of all web pages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible due to a phenomenon they call “digital decay”.
When researchers extended the time frame, they found that roughly a quarter of all web pages created from 2013 to 2023 no longer exist. Of that number, 8 per cent of those webpages were created in 2023.
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This is rather depressing. And I also noticed that some of the references on Wikipedia are gone now, which was both sad and disappointing also.
Sometimes I think of how the historians of the future won’t know almost anything about us, since our data is all so volatile. The Renaissance paintings have lasted centuries, but how much of the hundred thousands of photos we take will do the same? 🙁