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Computing | Link rot n. The natural decay of web links as the sitesthey're connected to change or die. Compare bit rot. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It also describes the effects of leaving webpages un-updated for some time. That is, they become out of date and the information they consist of becomes old and eventually next to useless, simply cluttering up search engine results. This is perhaps more frequently occurring in personal homepages that the owner has lost interest in. http://geocities.yahoo.com hosts what are often fine examples of such rot.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Link rot."
Crosswords: LINK ROT |
| Specialty definitions using "LINK ROT": dead link. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-k-l-n-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: intro, lirot, nitro, triol. | |
-3 letters: ikon, inro, into, iron, kiln, kilo, kilt, kino, kirn, knit, knot, link, lino, lint, lion, loin, lorn, loti, noil, noir, nori, oink, rink, riot, roil, roti, rotl, tirl, tiro, toil, tori, torn, trio. | |
-4 letters: ilk, ink, ion, irk, kin, kir, kit, koi, kor, lin, lit, lot, nil, nit. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-k-l-n-o-r-t" | |
+2 letters: interlock, thornlike. | |
+3 letters: interlocks, triskelion. | |
+4 letters: cartoonlike, forklifting, interlocked, leukotriene, overtalking, trickledown, triskelions. | |
+5 letters: interlocking, leukotrienes, metalworking, outsparkling, skeletonizer. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 49 4E 4B 52 4F 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01001001 01001110 01001011 00100000 01010010 01001111 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L I N K   R O T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0049 004E 004B 0052 004F 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)464348452524954 |
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