─── WANDER BY DECADE ───

7265 dead across the decades. pick a wing.

• ─── THE PRE-1980s WING ───

  the analog ancestors. wire recordings, tape formats, the machines that died before the modem was born.

  34 dead

• ─── THE 1980s WING ───

  the founding dead. before the web. dial-up bulletins, dead protocols, the genesis.

  130 dead

• ─── THE 1990s WING ───

  the dial-up era. AOL chatrooms, the first social experiments, the GIFs that never stopped looping.

  473 dead

• ─── THE 2000s WING ───

  the broadband boom and bust. MySpace, Flash games, the second wave that thought it would last.

  1525 dead

• ─── THE 2010s WING ───

  the smartphone takeover. RIP everything that did not pivot to mobile-first. messengers, photo apps, the everything-else.

  3433 dead

  split in two: 2010-2014 (1628 dead) · 2015-2019 (1805 dead)

• ─── THE 2020s WING ───

  the recent dead. shutdowns from the pandemic-era pullback, AI's victims, the failures still close enough to mourn.

  1670 dead