~ about ~

~ who ~

i'm b0zy. computer engineer. online since 1998, dial-up at home, 14.4k modem then 33.6k then the magical 56k. i remember the handshake noise. i remember the per-minute phone bills.

this site is a memorial to the dead corners of the internet i grew up in. the messengers, the social networks, the browsers, the websites that mattered to people and then quietly disappeared.

~ why ~

most of these things will not have a wikipedia page in twenty years. some already do not. when a service like icq or msn or geocities dies, the obit gets written by tech press in two paragraphs and that is the end of it. the people who actually used these things, who had small social moments inside them, do not usually write obits.

this site is a place to write those longer obits. each grave is something i either used myself or remember from the era. when i write about something i never used, i say so directly. honesty about distance matters more than pretending to know things i do not.

~ what is here ~

100+ memorialized things, organized into rough categories: messengers, social networks, browsers, gadgets, kids' sites, games, search engines, protocols. plus a small companion section called things that survived against odds for the few that are technically still here.

each grave has a verdict (one paragraph), a body (the obit, the rituals, what it actually did, how it died, what we lost), and metadata (born/died dates, who made it, what killed it). some have logos. recent ones have a wayback machine link to see what the original site looked like.

~ how to contribute ~

the easiest way: suggest a grave. you fill in product name + a short death story. the form is rate-limited and captcha-protected to keep bots out. i read all submissions and write up the ones that fit. if your suggestion gets added, i preserve the source you sent.

you can also leave a rose on any grave (small anonymous tribute) and leave a comment for stories you remember. comments are anonymous-friendly and lightly moderated.

~ contact ~

direct: author [at] rip [dot] so (human-decodable, bot-safe)
recent burials feed (atom): /feed.xml
weekly digest (newsletter): subscribe here

~ thanks ~

to the hacker news community for picking the site up on 29 april 2026, leaving 30k+ pageviews and several hundred corrections in a single day.

to the people who left a rose. to the people who submitted a grave. to the small obscure communities (sodaplay, nabaztag, sputnik7, the palace, origami flowers) where someone is still tending the archive.