The minute you upload an image onto the internet, people say it's there forever. But even if images on the internet have staying power, links break all the time for a variety of reasons.
To keep websites functioning, broken links are generally avoided.
This site explores what happens if broken links are a feature of a website instead of an error.I have linked each image and GIF that covers the home page to a photo on the internet. Over time, as the image links break, they will uncover the art piece and components of the website underneath.
A 2021 study on "link rot" of the New York Times website conducted by Harvard University found that over a quarter of NYT links in articles from 1998 to 2019 have rotted. They also found the rate of link rot increases with time.
In short, depending on the image links I picked, this could take a while.
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credits
woodblock print by Takahashi ShÅtei | all downloaded images are CC0 | all video content linked from youtube | landscape by moochybee used under CC-BY 3.0 | Paul Signac, Les Andelys photographed by Frans Vandewalle used under CC BY-NC 2.0 | videos linked from youtube | made by momo 2024.