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aka bitrot

• inDigiNeous 11y ago
  Bitrot means degradation of physical media containing digital data, not really anyting to do with bugs appearing in code that is introduced into a new environment.
  • tokenrove 11y ago
    It has been used almost interchangably with code rot in this sense for a long time: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bit-rot.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bit-rot.html
  • DougBTX 11y ago
    > The Jargon File, a compendium of hacker's lore, defines "bit rot" as a jocular explanation for the degradation of a software program over time even if "nothing has changed"; the idea being this is almost as if the bits that make up the program were subject to radioactive decay. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot