When Online Content Disappears: 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later

https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.

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Limeey@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

I mean, this makes sense. It costs money to host a webpage - even a tiny blog run on a home server requires someone to have the hardware on, running, and connected to the internet. Not to mention the domain registration and the security risk of running a website using software from 2013