rip.so is a "graveyard of dead internet things," with a handsome old-web aesthetic (there's even a <marquee>!) with which to enjoy the sites that capital forgot.
The internet moves fast. They were on our desktops one day, the next their servers were dark, their domains squatted, their icons gone from our trays. Some died of mismanagement, some of acquisition, some of irrelevance. Some are technically still alive, but their soul left a long time ago. This page is a memorial to all of them. We bury our heroes here. Pour a 56k modem out for them.
There's MySpace, Vine, GeoCities, Angelfire, Lycos, and of course Google Reader. There's Napster, Flash, Neopets, even Clippy. Messaging systems honored include ICQ ("uh-oh"), AIM and Blackberry Messenger.
Conversely, the 2011 entry for Friendster, acquired and relaunched by developer Mike Carson as a nostalgic, "user-first" social network app, may now require an update.
Google kills so many of its own services that there's more than one site memorializing the dead: Google Graveyard, The Google Cemetary.
According to the footer, rip.so has been visited 450456 times, is best viewed in Netscape Navigator at 800×600 resolution, and was hand-coded in Notepad.
Previously:
• The NYT is blocking the Internet Archive. That's a mistake.
• The Internet Archive is putting a Trump-resistant mirror of the web in Canada
