Digital Folklore
GeoCities: The Digital Town That Died Twice
GeoCities was the early web's first mass platform. When Yahoo pulled the plug, millions of personal pages vanished and a fragile internet culture began to feel haunted.
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Digital Folklore
The Door Sound: How AIM Invented Social Media and Then Disappeared
AOL Instant Messenger taught a generation how to have a digital identity. When it shut down in 2017, almost nobody noticed. That's the story.