“In the form of cached Web sites, evacuated blogs, forgotten MySpace pages and abandoned Flickr feeds, ghosts frolic, beeping and flashing on autopilot. The jolly online zombies look the way they did the day they died, but the light left their eyes the last day their souls logged in.”
–Virginia Hefferman, The Medium

“ok so this is my page for me and all the spooky things that happen to me don’t think Iam crazy and don’t think that I am makenig things up but for the true believers you can find alot of things here that you might find reasoureful of what not.so if your ready you can read my page and chill out…feel free to look around and have fun. “
–first and last entry on iamaloser.blogspot.com, June 18, 2002

“If you like a certain blog, make friends with the blogger, and then later they abandon their blog, and do not respond to emails, should you be worried? Contact the police? Make a missing persons report? Google their name and search for an obituary? What are you ethically obligated to do in this situation?”
from Dropping out of the blogosphere

“Most of these screenshots (many of which are annotated) were collected during the dotcom bust of 1999-2001, but I continue to add new victims to the rolls as they succomb to the forces of cyber-entropy.”
– Steve Baldwin, The Museum of Interactive Failure

“What would cause people to leave such a beautiful place?”
– WebUrbanists.com’s Urban Abandonments Parts I & II