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Photobucket: the relationship between image-hosting policy and dispersed forum communities | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: How Photobucket's 2017 decision to charge $399.99 a year for third-party hosting swapped years of forum photographs for placeholders, and why a community can stay active while quietly losing its usable memory.

Ancient Web: Yarchive Saved Usenet Technical Knowledge Before It Scrolled Away

Yarchive is Norman Yarvin's curated archive of technical Usenet discussions, organizing old posts on computing, electronics, physics, chemistry, aviation, bicycles, telephones, metalworking, food, houses, space, and other practical subjects.

Ancient Web: Flame Warriors Cataloged the People Who Ruin Every Forum

Mike Reed's Flame Warriors turned online arguments into an illustrated field guide of recurring forum personalities, from ALLCAPS and Newbie to Necromancer, Troll, and Profundus Maximus.

Ancient Web: Shannen-Doherty.net Preserved the Fan-Site Era—and the Star Used It

Shannen-Doherty.net is a surviving celebrity fan site with years of news, galleries, guestbook-era features, a huge forum, and an unusual historical wrinkle: Shannen Doherty herself used the community and answered fans there.

Ancient Web: Thailand Fever Built a Bilingual Relationship Guide on the Web

ThailandFever.com preserves the Web presence around a 2000s Thai-English relationship guide, including bilingual previews, author backgrounds, reviews, translations and a surviving forum from 2005.