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Dead Internet Theory: How GeoCities' themed neighborhoods organized the hobbyist web, why Yahoo's ownership let it take the city down in 2009, and what the Internet Archive kept of it.
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: LambdaMOO opened in 1990 and is still running. This is how a world made of text supports social presence, what it takes to govern and maintain it, and why it outlasted so many graphical platforms.
Dead Internet Theory: The WELL has run continuous discussion since 1985, outlasting every platform trend in this series. Its history shows what member ownership and paid stewardship do for a community's chances.
Dead Internet Theory: Voice chat can make online communities faster and more natural while leaving little searchable text behind for people who arrive after the conversation ends.
Dead Internet Theory: Online communities sometimes succeed so well that relationships move partly offline, reducing visible posting without ending the social network that formed online.