How the Wayback Machine is trying to solve the web’s growing linkrot problem

A number of cursors point toward an unhappy face on a laptop Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

We’ve been talking a lot about the future of the web on Decoder and across The Verge lately, and one big problem keeps coming up: huge chunks of the web keep going offline. In a lot of meaningful ways, large portions of the web are dying. Servers go offline, software upgrades break links and pages, and companies go out of business — the web isn’t static, and that means sometimes parts of it simply vanish.

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