A memorial to the weird little corners of the internet that lived on The Useless Web.
rip.so :: the digital graveyard
A memorial to the messengers, social networks, browsers and websites the internet forgot.
The Sites of The Useless Web
The current roster of useless websites on The Useless Web — with the story behind each one.
My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.
How the Web Was Lost – James Gleick
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Webby Tim Berners-Lee with Stephen WittFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 389 pp., $30
Dead Simple Sites — Minimal Web Design Inspiration & Gallery
A curated gallery of the most minimal, clean websites on the internet. No animations, no scroll jacking — just pure, simple web design inspiration. Updated weekly.
We can have a different web
Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.
For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website - Aftermath
The internet felt like a limitless expanse of free expression. Now I usually end up at the same three or four websites.
Wholesome internet 🌱
I’m watering a “cursed websites” folder in my digital garden shed, but also a “wholesome websites” counterpart, like any reasonably sane person on the internet should do in this day and age. And that's that.
What We Lost When We Quit Using Crappy Old Web Forums
Old web forums were poorly coded and rough around the edges, but maybe we gave up on them too quickly in the social media era.
The Entire Internet Is a UGC Reaction Video Now
I keep a folder in Apple Notes called “cursed websites,” where I save various artefacts that make me feel like the social contract has dissolved. Call it an act of self-loathing. Call it collecting evidence of the fall. Dansugc.com went straight into the folder this morning. It’s a
The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
The web we lost
A melancholy reflection about what happened to the web mixed with some positive imagination about to do about it.
What Was the Internet?
Google Reader was building the wrong future
We Build On Hope @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026
Against the dark forest
J. R. Carpenter || A Handmade Web
The web was always about redistribution of power. Let's bring that back.