Recently I was browsing through old threads where users showed off their personal websites and blogs. I wanted to find some inspiration for my own website.
What I found instead were about 3/4 dead links – even though the threads were all from the last 4-5 years. I found that quite sad, because people often talked with great passion about their websites and they sounded really cool. Also i LOVE those small, personal islands in the big, commercialized and in many ways centralized web.
Sadly that is nothing new. I used to run a website gallery and link rotting is incredibly high.
Same is true for another couple of projects I’m running now. I’m collecting personal websites and quirky small web experiments and the same is happening there.
Somewhat related is the phenomenon of dead blogs. Plenty of those with a couple of interesting posts and then abandoned.
What I found instead were about 3/4 dead links – even though the threads were all from the last 4-5 years. I found that quite sad, because people often talked with great passion about their websites and they sounded really cool. Also i LOVE those small, personal islands in the big, commercialized and in many ways centralized web.