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Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-08-13 Cached

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.

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"The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years." (2011)

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-08-09 Cached

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.

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Banner Highway 01

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-07-25 Cached

A browser-based visual poetry series that reimagines classic Burma-Shave roadside poems using archived banner ads from the 1990s–early 2000s.

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Disney erased FiveThirtyEight

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-05-19 Cached

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.

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