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Dead Internet Theory: How Multiply, a 2004 network built for sharing photos, blogs, and videos with people you already knew, became an e-commerce marketplace for Southeast Asia, dismantled its own sharing features, and closed in 2013.
Dead Internet Theory: Webshots was one of the first photo-sharing sites built around public display, and its model gave amateur photographers an audience. This article traces how repeated ownership changes and a 2012 shutdown scattered those collections and moved the community to new homes.
Dead Internet Theory: Families still share ordinary life online, but increasingly do so inside private photo groups and restricted accounts rather than public personal blogs that remain searchable for years.