There’s something sort of spooky about a site that’s been left to float around in cyberspace. You can very easily find a parallel between finding a dead website and walking through ancient ruins. It no longer has a purpose, you wonder who made it and why. It can tell you a bit of history, while still leaving you with a mystery.

But unlike ruins, there’s a monetary endpoint to a domain left in cyberspace. They can’t float in the digital ether forever, someone will want to take its eyes (domain name) and you’ll find yourself chasing a broken link. We all think of the information we find on the web as very vital, sometimes we forget to look at the date the material we’re reading was posted. The person who wrote it could be dead already, the site could be dead already and when we try to find it the next day it’s all Pee Wee Herman in the truck with Large Marge . You couldn’t have talked to her Pee Wee, she’s dead already.

ghost sites

all that remains of a flog

OH! AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!