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38% of decade old webpages suffer from digital decay
38% of websites from ten years ago have suffered from digital decay and are no longer accessible. Social media also suffers from it.
However, new research shows that this isn’t necessarily true: 38% of web pages that existed in 2013 are no longer available due to digital decay. They also found that 21% of web pages on government websites had at least one broken link, as anyone who has tried to find out when their local DMV offices open can surely attest. Wikipedia is often the starting point for anyone looking to learn something, with the references a natural springboard to deeper research, so this is undoubtedly a frustration for many.
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