link rot n. The natural decay of web links as the sites they're connected to change or die.

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• bit decay n. See bit rot. People with a physics background tend to prefer this variant for the analogy with particle decay.
  See also computron, quantum...
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• alpha particles n.
  See bit rot...
• bit decay: n. See {bit rot}. People with a physics background tend to prefer this variant for the analogy with particle decay.
  See also {computron}, {quantum bogodynamics}. ...
• web ring n. Two or more web sites connected by prominent links between sites sharing a common interest or theme.
  Usually such cliques have the topology of a ring, in...
• bit rot n. [common] Also bit decay. Hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed,
  even if `nothing has changed'. The theory explains...
• bit rot: n. Also {bit decay}. Hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed,
  even if `nothing has changed'. The theory explains...
• SOFTWARE ROT n. A hypothetical disease of which the existence has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will stop working after sufficient time has passed,
  even if "nothing has changed!" Also known as "BIT DECAY...
• dead link n. [very common] A World-Wide-Web URL that no longer points to the information it was written to reach.
  Usually this happens because the document has been...