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YTMND: community survival around an obsolete web format | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: How a site made of looping images, sound clips, and zooming text carried a community through Flash's death and a 2020 relaunch, and why saving the files is not the same as saving the scene.

Shockwave projects and their preservation obstacles | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: Saving a Shockwave project meant keeping its .dcr file, its external 3D worlds and Xtras, and a compatible player. When Adobe discontinued Shockwave in 2019, recovery fell to patched projectors — and even then, missing pieces like Orbit Spherez's lost levels can keep a surviving game unfinished.