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I'm surprised it's not more. 2013 was long after the days of hobbyist websites of the early net, and into the time when most new sites were business driven. Giv
by onion2k 2y ago
I'm surprised it's not more. 2013 was long after the days of hobbyist websites of the early net, and into the time when most new sites were business driven. Given how long businesses last I'd expect many more sites to be long gone 11 years later. I guess maybe the death of a lot of community-building spaces (angelfire, Geocities, etc) probably counts for a lot of them going.
What would be particularly interesting would be to graph how long websites last for. I suspect quite a lot of the content from the early days is still around, and this period (2008 - 2018) is the peak of sites vanishing.
- rchaud 2y agoA lot of the content from the early days was on platforms which are long dead: - Geocities - University-provided FTP folder (deleted after you graduate) - ISP-provided FTP folder (all those Earthlink, Juno, Comcast sites: probably deleted)