# What the ephemerality of the Web means for your hyperlinks - Columbia Journalism Review

<https://www.cjr.org/analysis/linkrot-content-drift-new-york-times.php>

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## What Jamie wrote

Interesting data on how old links to content hold up over time. 

> Of these deep links, 25 percent of all links were completely inaccessible. Linkrot became more common over time: 6 percent of links from 2018 had rotted, as compared to 43 percent of links from 2008 and 72 percent of links from 1998. Fifty-three percent of all articles that contained deep links had at least one rotted link. 

I’m glad the article mentions [Internet Archive](https://archive.org) which is a great organization I have supported for years. But I think in the case of media companies and others, the better solution is to take the onus on yourself to hold a copy of what was published as a static asset. Some bookmarking solutions do that as well. I pay a small annual fee to [Pinboard](https://pinboard.in/) and it stores a snapshot of every link that I bookmark. Even if it is deleted by the publisher, I still have Pinboard's copy.

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