Ghost Sites of the Web: Where Dead Sites Live On... Where Web Disasters Are Still Fresh

Identifying and critiquing aging, abandoned, and derelict web sites since 1996. Includes a Web 1.0 screenshot library, essays, and "The Museum of Interactive Failure." By Internet Marketing veteran Steve Baldwin.

October 29, 2004

Abandoned Humor Sites

What's so funny about dead humor sites? Well, not much. Most comics, online or off, are manic-depressive personalities, and when their lovingly launched Web sites descend into electronic dissolution, you can almost hear the uncorking of whiskey bottles and Prozac containers.

Here are 25 recently unearthed screeenshots from a bunch of comedy sites for whom giggles and guffaws are just a fading memory. Some of their farewell screens are funny; most are not, just like most comedians.

buttafly.com
chihuahuaboy.com
cracked.com
furiosity.com
greasefire.com
hierarchy of the zucchini peoplee
lightedpictures.com
milleniumhell.com
pulsecheck.com
rayno.com
redstarball.com
satirewire.com
sensory deprivation
smartass.org
snipersite.com
squatpump.com
subatomichumor.com
thedoormagazine.com
thesefriendsofmine
thethirdrail.com
underground-online.com
urbanexpose.com
wearenotamused
weirdharold.com
whatever-dude.com



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