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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: When a personal website's domain lapses, the author loses the single address that anchored their work and every link pointing at it, even if archives keep copies of the content. Using DykeWrite as a documented example, this article explains what expiration takes away, what survives, and why recovery rarely restores the original address.
Dead Internet Theory: University accounts come with a slice of the public web. When the account expires, the pages on it disappear, and only copies made elsewhere survive.
Dead Internet Theory: How the free webspace bundled into internet accounts became a publishing platform on rented servers, what was lost when AOL and Yahoo retired it, and what a writer must do to keep pages and links alive.
Truman’s personal Web-space system used ordinary files, a campus T: drive and public www2.truman.edu URLs—a publishing model documented years before WordPress’s 2003 debut.
Dead Internet Theory: A personal website offers unusual control over identity and publishing, but it also requires recurring technical and administrative work that app-based posting hides from the user.
Truman’s www2 personal Web-space system let students and faculty publish files from campus storage to public tilde-user URLs.
Dead Internet Theory: Some people are returning to personal websites because owned publishing gives them durable addresses, format freedom, and more control over identity, even though the technical burden keeps the revival from becoming universal.
By 2000, Truman faculty were publishing directly to personal www2.truman.edu spaces using tools such as Netscape Composer and the campus T: drive.