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Alex Tew's Million Dollar Homepage sold a 1,000-by-1,000 pixel grid as advertising in 2005 and became a permanent mosaic of the commercial Web at exactly the moment every square was finally sold.
A 1995-era personal web page turned a pile of old Band-Aid boxes found in a Northern California garage into a tiny packaging museum, then kept accumulating reader submissions, company history, family corrections, and vintage commercials.
Dead Internet Theory: Cloud-document sharing can be abused to deliver unsolicited promotional material through notifications that inherit the trust and urgency of a collaboration service.
Dead Internet Theory: Browser notification permission can turn a one-time website visit into an ongoing alert channel, which is useful for timely updates but easy to degrade into repetitive promotional noise.
WhipNet built a fan archive around Bud Light's Real American Heroes and Real Men of Genius radio ads, preserving MP3s, lyrics and a 2003 newspaper article in gloriously period HTML.
PepsiCollector.com preserves the collector-driven side of brand history: bottles, cans, signs, packaging, advertising, and the tiny production differences that disappear from official corporate timelines.
Dead Internet Theory: Redirect chains can expose or align identifiers between advertising companies, letting separate trackers learn that their different local IDs refer to the same browser.
Dead Internet Theory: Some advertising systems collect device and behavior signals to detect bots, fake impressions, and fraudulent clicks, creating a real security rationale for observation that still needs limits against unrelated profiling.
Dead Internet Theory: Amazon Prime Video shows how a paid service can gain advertising without lowering the subscription price, turning ad-free viewing into an additional purchase.