That abandoned Geocities shrine to 2003 pop punk I stumbled on at 2 AM

Was digging through some old link archives last night and found a page dedicated to some band I've never heard of. The layout was pure fire on a black background, with a midi file that auto-played and a guestbook from 2005 still taking entries. Somehow the domain was still live. 23 total visitors in the last month. I left a comment asking if anyone was still there. Anyone else ever get sucked into these zombie sites that just won't die?

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barbararamirez8d ago

Wait, is finding some old Geocities site really that deep? I've stumbled on plenty of band pages from 2003 that look like someone threw up a bunch of HTML tags and called it a day. It's just digital junk that nobody bothered to take down.

brooke5337d ago

Wait, is it really just digital junk though? I get what you're saying @barbararamirez, but I think there's a difference between a band page with broken links and some kid's personal shrine to Blink-182 from 1999. The bad HTML stuff is funny, sure, but sometimes you find someone's actual diary entries or poetry they wrote when they were 14. That's not junk, that's a time capsule of a real person's life before social media made everything polished and fake. I stumbled on one once where a girl was writing about her dad's cancer and it was raw and real, like finding a handwritten letter in an attic.