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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1985-|
| ....|
|_____|
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The WELL breathing since 1985 hanging-on A note on The WELL, the 1985 dial-up community that coined the phrase virtual community and is somehow still taking new members. outlived: CompuServe, Prodigy, theGlobe.com |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1987-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
SDF Public Access UNIX System breathing since 1987 thriving A note on SDF, the public access unix system handing out shell accounts since 1987, older than the web and still taking members. outlived: CompuServe, Prodigy, Gopher protocol |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1988-|
| ....|
|_____|
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IRC breathing since 1988 hanging-on A note on IRC, the chat protocol from 1988 that nothing replaced because nothing needed to. |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1991-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
Gopher breathing since 1991 hanging-on A note on gopher, the protocol that lost to the web in 1993 and still answers on port 70 anyway. outlived: HyTelnet |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1992-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
Lynx breathing since 1992 hanging-on A note on lynx, the text browser from 1992 that outlived nearly every graphical browser sent to replace it. outlived: Line Mode Browser, NCSA Mosaic, Netscape Navigator |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1995-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
Craigslist breathing since 1995 thriving A note on Craigslist, the bare HTML classifieds site that has not changed since 1998 and remains profitable in 2026. |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1995-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
GameFAQs breathing since 1995 thriving A note on GameFAQs, the plain text walkthrough archive that has been answering where do i go next since 1995. outlived: GameSpy, GamePro (print), Nintendo Power |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1995-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
Newgrounds breathing since 1995 hanging-on A note on Newgrounds, the Flash games and animation site that survived Flash dying by integrating Ruffle and keeping its archive playable. outlived: Adobe Flash, Flash games |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1996-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
Space Jam website (1996) breathing since 1996 hanging-on A note on the 1996 Space Jam movie site, the star-tiled promo page Warner Bros forgot to delete and then decided to keep forever. outlived: GeoCities |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1997-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
berkshirehathaway.com breathing since 1997 thriving A note on berkshirehathaway.com, the trillion dollar company home page that has looked the same since 1997, on purpose. outlived: Netscape Navigator |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1997-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
Slashdot breathing since 1997 hanging-on A note on Slashdot, the news for nerds site that should have been replaced by reddit but somehow keeps posting. outlived: Digg (the original) |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1998-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
curl breathing since 1998 thriving A note on curl, the transfer tool one swedish engineer has run since 1998, now inside twenty billion devices. outlived: GetRight, Go!Zilla |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1998-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
Everything2 breathing since 1998 hanging-on A note on Everything2, the 1998 writing site from the Slashdot crowd that is older than Wikipedia and still gets new writeups every morning. outlived: Nupedia, Kuro5hin |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1998-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
textfiles.com breathing since 1998 thriving A note on textfiles.com, jason scott's one-man library of the BBS era, holding everything people typed before the web existed. outlived: FidoNet (the dial-up era), TBBS (The Bread Board System), Wildcat! BBS |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1999-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
Fark breathing since 1999 hanging-on A note on Fark, drew curtis's news aggregator where the headline has always mattered more than the article. outlived: Digg (the original), StumbleUpon |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1999-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
MetaFilter breathing since 1999 hanging-on A note on MetaFilter, the community weblog from 1999 where five dollars still buys a lifetime of moderated conversation. outlived: Kuro5hin, Memepool |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1999-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
RSS breathing since 1999 hanging-on A note on RSS, the syndication format declared dead in 2013, which still delivers every podcast on earth. outlived: Google Reader, Bloglines, FeedDemon |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1999-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
Something Awful breathing since 1999 hanging-on A note on Something Awful, the comedy forums that charged ten dollars to post and accidentally produced half of internet culture. outlived: Portal of Evil, TOTSE |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|1999-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
XMPP breathing since 1999 hanging-on A note on XMPP, the open chat protocol from 1999 that outlived the closed messengers built on top of it. outlived: AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Google Talk / Hangouts (Classic) |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|2000-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
Homestar Runner breathing since 2000 hanging-on A note on Homestar Runner, the flash cartoon site from 2000 that outlived flash itself. outlived: Adobe Flash, Albino Blacksheep |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|2001-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
eBaum's World breathing since 2001 hanging-on A note on eBaum's World, the watermark site half the early internet declared war on, still posting galleries while its enemies are mostly dead. outlived: Albino Blacksheep, Break.com, CollegeHumor |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|2001-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
VLC media player breathing since 2001 thriving A note on VLC media player, the orange traffic cone that has been on every computer since 2003 and just keeps working. outlived: RealPlayer, Winamp |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|2001-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
Wikipedia breathing since 2001 thriving A note on Wikipedia, the most successful collaborative project on the internet, which should not work and somehow does. |
___
/ \
| + |
| OK |
|2004-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
YTMND breathing since 2004 hanging-on A note on YTMND, the single-format meme site from 2004 that became a museum of mid-2000s internet humor and is somehow still online. |
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/ \
| + |
| OK |
|2007-|
| ....|
|_____|
|
Hacker News breathing since 2007 thriving A note on Hacker News, paul graham's startup news site that has barely changed since 2007 and is the meta reason this graveyard exists at scale. outlived: Digg (the original) |
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