Twittering, the online activity du jour, was suddenly everywhere last week, even in the mainstream print media. A sure sign, perhaps, that it has peaked, and is on the road to the graveyard for once-fashionable internet crazes. David Randall reportsPeep through the gates of the Internet Cemetery, and you can see the gravediggers are never idle. Day after day, hour after hour, the dead domains come in, ready to be interred with all the other websites which withered from a lack of interest, ran out of money, were overtaken by a rival with snazzier technology, or just lost their cool.The headstones tell their own story: “HotBot.com. Dearly beloved search engine. Born 1996. Downgraded 2002ish. Forever in our bookmarks”. “Webvan.com. Born 1999. Died 2001, of a broken business plan. A lesson to us all.” “Boo.com. Online Fashion Retailer. 1999-2000. Only sleeping”. And, in a less well-tended corner of the graveyard, where the flowers haven’t been changed for months and the cheap lettering is starting to fade a little, are millions of blogs and home pages. “Janice Swinley’s Blog. Born, with jottings from family holidays, in 2005. Died, after a long battle with boredom, in 2008.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/death-on-the-net-1662819.html
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