NETROT and WEBROT
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netrot
Date: 1994
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The property of information in which the quality of references to
network addresses (email accounts, host names, etc.) deteriorates in
accuracy over time. Entropy, as applied to Information exchanged on
the Internet.
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webrot
Date: 1994
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The property of netrot applied to web pages and other hypertext
documents exchanged over the World Wide Web. E.g. when you run into
non-transient "404 Error, Link Not Found" errors when surfing the
web. (1994)
An example of webrot:
You spend lots of time doing web searches to find any related information
about a topic you are looking for, and find a number of promising
hits from your initial search. When you go to visit those pages,
you then find that they either don't exist, point to the wrong
information, or contain hypertext information with many links that
no longer work. These pages have been afflicted with webrot.