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Net Cemetery

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the of-playing-taps-at-doubletime dept.

Ant wrote to us regarding coverage of the .com dead - the Net Cemetery. It's a fun piece, which gets into the problems of covering and reviewing a medium that's changing everyday. If you're into wandering through the .com wasteland, you should also check out Ghost Sites, which does a great job of "museumifing" (sounds like transmorgify) the same type of sites.

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  1. Who would've thought? by mosch · · Score: 5

    As much as I hate the whole dot-com market overreaction and all, what were some of these people thinking?

    zoza.com? What do you think of when you heard 'zoza.com'. That's right, absofuckinglutely nothing.

    bigwords.com. what's their motto, 'tired of only being able to buy a vowel?' your guide to antidisestablishmentarianism? helping you recover from Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanicconiosis? Who cares now, they've been
    Floccipoccinihilipilificated.

    carorder.com, because not only do you want to buy your car online, you want to buy it from someplace you've never heard of before.

    elingo.com, for all your jargon needs!

    icecreamvan.com. no, i'm not kidding.

    popawheelie.com, because popping wheelies in real life is dangerous, and in potential violation of traffic laws.

    while nobody here likes high unemployment in the tech sector, the fact of the matter is, it's not exactly shocking that most of these places died, nor is it particularly sad to see most of them go.

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  2. it's all worth preserving by fantomas · · Score: 4

    There's a lot of rubbish on the net. We all know it. We know there's lots of absolute rubbish. But in the same way that that archaeologists get really excited about unearthing ancient rubbish pits and have wonderful skills at pulling together information from them to find out about real lives from history, who knows what the dead websites of today will provide for information gatherers of tomorrow?

    We can't tell what the future will want to look at from our present. Right now we're not even saving the good stuff. We need to seriously think about archiving up the web for future generations. I was one of a team of four people who built Virgin Music Group's first website back in 94- 95. Did we keep any of it? did we ***! Bit of a shame really.

    Ask your local archivist or archaeologist or local historian if they think anything is too small to be of use when researching the past.