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Dead Internet Theory: How MSN Groups hosted thousands of member-run communities, what Microsoft offered them when it shut the service down in 2009, and why copying content onto another platform was never enough to keep a community alive.
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: When HubPages absorbed Squidoo in 2014, thousands of 'lenses' moved but the community built on them did not. This article traces what the migration carried over and what it left behind.
Dead Internet Theory: Fandom communities have repeatedly migrated between platforms, and restricted servers can preserve active social life while making conversation, archives, and participation less visible to outsiders.