I finally cleared out my bookmarks folder from 2009

I had this folder called "stuff to check out" with over 100 links. One of them was a Flash game that doesn't even load anymore. Another was a Geocities page about homemade wind chimes that had been shut down for like 12 years. The weirdest one was a PDF guide on how to build a chicken coop out of old pallets. I think I saved it because I was going to try it that summer, but I never did. Most of the links just redirect to random spam sites now. Has anyone else gone through an old bookmark dump and seen how much the web has just crumbled away?

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rivera.susan26d ago

oh man, I totally did this last year and found a link to a forum thread I started in like 2008 asking how to mod my MySpace profile, and the whole thing was just dead. it's wild how much of the internet is just gone now, feels like digital archaeology digging through those old links.

oliver24226d agoMost Upvoted

Man, tell me about it... I went down that same rabbit hole last month trying to find a Geocities page I made in 1999 about my cat. The whole thing was just a 404 error with a little broken cat gif. I guess that's what I get for trusting a free web host run by a guy named "xXx_webmaster_69_xXx" to keep my stuff safe forever. Digital archaeology is right, except my dig site is mostly just cobwebs and dead links... and a bunch of badly written HTML from when I thought using 18 different fonts was cool.