The Sites We Lost

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.

pzwang/lostweb

The Web We Lost, and What Comes Next

The Missing Building Blocks of the Web

At a time when millions are losing trust in the the web’s biggest sites, it’s worth revisiting the idea that the web was supposed to be…

The Disappearing World Wide Web

Fare thee well, oh honey...

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

It's time to rebuild the web

The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by a few major publishers; it was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices.

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.

Meditations on The Human Web

To save the internet, we may have to rebuild it.

Can We Survive Technology

Search the history of more than 1 trillion web pages.

The year we wanted the internet to be smaller

Why tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017

A Short History Of The Internet

I am not by any measure old unless you ask my nieces, but I remember when we had no internet and my niece's minds boggle at that, they think I must be ancient. How could you survive without the internet they asked me, in their minds the concept of no internet is pretty much science fiction and the thought of not having internet access scares them.