digital decay
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.79 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The gradual process by which information online or in digital storage disappears or becomes inaccessible.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Data stored on computers can decay because the storage medium is corrupted or becomes obsolete. […] Unfortunately, few companies are actively working on the digital decay issue."
- "We have no guarantee that anything made of ones and zeros will be usable, or even readable, in another 50 years. […] The world suffers a silent phenomenon of "digital decay". This quirky realm is mostly populated by librarians, archivists and museum curators, plus the occasional anxious scientist and panicky megacorporate record clerk."
- "To understand how digital decay manifests on social media, Pew collected a real-time sample of tweets from the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) during spring 2023 and monitored them for three months. They discovered that: […] Nearly 20% of tweets are no longer publicly visible just months after being posted."