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.
Online dating sites - even the biggest ones such as Match.com - are "plateauing" - in the words of the New York Times in an article posted today (registration required). "As a heady pop-cultural revolution — otherwise known as a fad — the Net no longer seems to have the capacity to reinvent the world's mating rituals. A moment has passed."
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GHOST RAILS Images of a Lost Time When Railroads Ruled America  Photos by Steve Baldwin |
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DEAD WEBSITES LIVE ON AT THE MUSEUM OF INTERACTIVE FAILURE 1,250 haunting screenshots of defunct and abandoned Web sites from the Go-Go Years of Web 1.0 (1994-2001).  |
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WILD PARROTS OF BROOKLYN Threat, Menace, or Wisecracking Cutie-Pies?  Photos by Steve Baldwin |
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Check out the new book I wrote with Kevin Lee |
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THE NETSLAVES ARCHIVE Horror Tales of Working the Web: vintage vitriol from hundreds of the New Economy's "Willy Lomans"  |
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FOUND A ROTTEN OR ABANDONED WEB SITE? Send Email to Steve_Baldwin at hotmail dot com. Has your own site been online (dead or alive) for more than a decade? We need to talk! |
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THE PATHFINDER.COM MUSEUM A multimedia tribute to "The World's Best Web Site"  |
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Blogs/Sites I Like to Read GigaOm.com Google Blogoscoped ItsObviousToMe.com Silicon Alley Insider ValleyWag.com |
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