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An analysis of 657,607 links from the 0.mk URL shortener (2009-2014) found that 76.7% of destinations no longer load, quantifying the decay of the old web.
A 2011 Long Bets wager between Jeremy Keith and Matt Haughey bets $1,000 on whether the original URL for the prediction will still work by 2022, with proceeds to Bletchley Park Trust or the Internet Archive.
A blog post from the Internet Archive analyzing recent link-rot studies (Pew, Zittrain, ODU) and showing how the Wayback Machine has rescued roughly 15% of otherwise dead webpages, highlighting the ongoing problem of web decay and the role of web archives.
Disney/ABC News has removed the FiveThirtyEight website, redirecting it to ABC News, effectively erasing years of content. Nate Silver comments on the broader issue of link rot and digital disappearance.