While reading the article, “Hot Type: A Modern Scholar’s Ailments: Link Rot and Footnote Flight” by Jennifer Howard, I noticed a lot of familiar things. One being links not working after a certain amount of time. This never really phased me because I never really reused a source after using it once (meaning I never revisited the source), but reading this article increased my concern. As Mr. Bugeja’s said, I too believe that if we don’t figure out a way to preserve links, all the work we have done is somewhat pointless. It can’t be proven fact or fiction if the credible sources are no longer available. I hope they figure out a successful method for preserving citations and sources.
-Destiny Modeste
