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Dead Internet Theory: How people used Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces to blog for people they already knew, what the 2011 move to WordPress.com preserved and required, and which parts of the platform quietly stayed behind.
Dead Internet Theory: How LiveJournal's friends page and language communities grew, how a chain of ownership ended in Moscow, and why the network divided without shutting down.
Dead Internet Theory: How Vox, the Six Apart blogging service that launched in 2006, built its experience around a privacy setting on every post, why audience boundaries made the site feel safe, and what its 2010 shutdown cost both posts and friendships.
Dead Internet Theory: How Posterous made blogging as simple as sending an email, why the Twitter acquisition turned out to be the end of the platform, and what its writers were able to carry out when it shut down in 2013.
Justin Hall's Links.net has been publishing personal notes, travel, relationships, experiments, and Internet life since 1994, making it one of the clearest surviving examples of the personal Web before blogging had a name.