Link rot is so very, very real.
I just visited a site that 'archives' articles from 2015. The majority of links no longer works.
What to do? You could archive pages, and link to the archived pages (I've seen many people do this). But how durable is that? Will those archival sites exist still in 10 years time?
I'm used to consult books that are centuries old. That we're unable now to archive digital stuff for longer than a couple of years is terrifying. #archives #digitalhumanities
There is the save page as option in browsers. A pity it is totally broken for most of modern sites. Most of them lost format, other even content. And it is hard to be sure you stored it the right way, since the saved page it is very likely depending on content on other servers. Testing it offline can help, of course, but you will need to empty your cache.
It's getting worse every decade.
