the loss of electronic information because the software or devices needed to read it are no longer availableBit rot is concerning because programs needed to view documents will eventually become outda [..]

n. Also bit decay. Hypothetical disease the existence of which has been deduced from the observation that unused programs or features will often stop working after sufficient time has passed, even if [..]

Bit rot is a colloquial computing term used either to describe gradual decay of storage media or to facetiously describe the spontaneous degradation of a software program over time. The later use of t [..]