The Museum of E-Failure

Since its inception in 2000, this website has logged 900 + websites that have "gone dark" from the years 1998-2004. Some of the sites just disappeared off the face of the planet without any reason why, whereas others showed an "epitaph" or some sort of farewell, webmaster written. Within this site are screen-shot recordings of the demised sites, much to the point of remembering what has passed through the ages unnoticed. The site mentions that this is to help find "insight" to see if the web has a "central role" in later history of dead media.

Beyond the seemingly endless pile of web refuse listed in center-screen, there is an explanation at the right pane of the page that discusses this page of Ghost Sites. This seems to be some sort of mock narrative, which implies an astronautical experience which led to the beginning of a 1996 project. This continues to creatively discuss the dot.com bubble. That is pretty much what is considered in the page, many examples of dead sites without any possible explanation for the occurrence, unfortunately bleem.com, which I believe is the same bleem software playstation emulator is among the list of casualties. Perhaps the cause of their demise was a lack of advertisement at cited in "The Great Web Wipeout", and insight before its due time.

It seems that with the passing of these sites, we learned how to make up from others mistakes and helped to create the booming internet-economy that exists today. I thought this site was quite interesting, somewhat morbid in a sense, but thought provoking to see how many need to fail for the few winners to pick up the pieces and achieve great success.