Vol. 10 · Portmanteaus ·Contemporary (2000–) ·2000
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permanent link
- Meaning
- A URL designed to stay pointing to the same resource indefinitely.
- Source words
- permanent + link
- Coined by
- Paul Bausch
- Year
- 2000
Background
Bausch and the Movable Type team coined it as a solution to blog archive rot. The idea predates the word — Tim Berners-Lee called them "cool URIs" — but permalink named it.
Contemporary (2000–)
Faster coinage, faster canonisation. Brexit and podcast both reached the OED within a decade of first use — historically rapid. Social media has made visibility, not invention, the rate-limiting step.
Two words, one coinage.
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