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by DougBTX 3986 days 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