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How the Wayback Machine is trying to solve the web’s growing linkrot problem
Mark Graham, director of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, joins Decoder to discuss linkrot.
Servers go offline, software upgrades break links and pages, and companies go out of business — the web isn’t static, and that means sometimes parts of it simply vanish. The list is virtually endless: sites like MTV News, Gawker(twice in less than a decade), Protocol, The Messenger, and, most recently, Game Informer are all gone. (A quick note: the Internet Archive just lost an appeal in a lawsuit over a short-lived book-lending initiative it launched at the start of the covid-19 pandemic.
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