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staledate
 v.— «The NYT often does an extraordinary job of covering the facts, but it doesn’t matter a whit to posterity if a link to that job will staledate in a month.» —“Why do newspapers charge for yesterday’s news?” by Cory Doctorow Boing Boing Jan. 25, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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