Webituary

Over the last two decades, the internet has undergone a subtle but profound shift. In the early days, surfing the web was an adventure — a sprawling, unpredictable landscape full of unique sites, personal pages, and niche communities. You’d stumble upon a random GeoCities neighborhood, discover a quirky fan site, or get lost in the maze of hyperlinks.

Fast forward to today, and the web feels like a much smaller place. We no longer surf, we scroll—and almost everything funnels through two or three giant platforms. Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok. These mega-sites curate, personalize, and control what we see, effectively turning the wild web into a walled garden.

Why did this happen? Partly because centralized platforms offer convenience, faster load times, and easy social features. But the tradeoff is a loss of serendipity, diversity, and the open, creative chaos that made the early web so magical.

Webituary — the digital graveyard — exists to remember those lost corners of the internet. To revive the websites we once loved and now rest in peace. It's a nostalgic reminder that the web used to be a vast frontier, not a handful of curated feeds.

If you miss the days when surfing meant discovery rather than endless scrolling, maybe it's time to revisit the past — before everything got boxed in.