The internet is disappearing, study says

Almost 40% of webpages from 2013 no longer exist a decade on, research finds

The internet is disappearing, a new study has suggested, as web pages and online content is lost.

The web is often thought of as a place where content lasts forever. But vast swathes of its are being lost as pages are deleted or moved, according to new research.

Of the webpages that existed in 2013, for instance, 38 per cent are now lost. Even newer pages are disappearing: 8 per cent of pages that existed in 2023 are no longer available.

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I’ve been blogging since 2004. I lost a bunch of stuff in the 2008/9 range, but it was mostly work related, work that I don’t do anymore.

Still, cached stuff on facebook or if you had a MySpace page, it might be good to lose that