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I have around 4000 bookmarks from ~2003 to 2009 when I stopped hoarding them. Afraid to check how many of them will work.
by rospaya 12y ago
I have around 4000 bookmarks from ~2003 to 2009 when I stopped hoarding them. Afraid to check how many of them will work.
- vitovito 12y agoIt's a terrible problem. Maciej Ceglowski is doing his own study on link rot: https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/08/researching_link_rot/ https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/08/researching_link_rot/ He says my numbers match his own so far, about 5% per year. So I'd guess ~2200 bookmarks are dead, and maybe you could get ~1000 of them back from the Wayback Machine. I have 28MB of personal bookmark files I'll be post-processing, as well as ~47,000 links from a shared, private bookmarking service dating from 2005 through 2011. I'm not looking forward to it.
- dredmorbius 12y agoNB: wget's '--spider' argument can be used to test link integrity (though it only checks that the link returns 200, not that the content is intact).