Hi all!
A few months ago I started noticing how many sites I used to love are now gone—some 404'd, some replaced, others just vanished. So I built Webituary, a small side project where people can submit and "bury" dead websites, leaving behind a brief memory or story.
It's a bit nostalgic, a bit silly, but also a way to reflect on the changing web. Would love your thoughts or ideas to make it better.
Im from 90s, and I started use internet on early 00s. I missed the time where one search in Google open the gate to a lot of curios websites.
Today, you start typing your question, and Google automplete it, show a IA generated answer, three sponsored links, first pages of high traffic websites (always the sames).
And that curios websites dead. :'(
When a website is submitted, I check if is a old website and I generate the metadata automatically:
- Favicon and first screenshot timestamp from wayback machine.
- Screenshot from this timestamp with thum.io (screenshot can took some seconds to load)
- Obituary, tags and years live with IA
Hope you enjoy it and submit your websites!
All feedback always welcomed (L
