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Found a 2002 fan page for the band Garbage that still has a guestbook you can sign
I was looking for old concert pics and stumbled on this site with a bright purple background and animated gifs everywhere. The guestbook still works and I left a message from 2024, which felt weird. Has anyone else found a working piece of the old web like that recently?
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annaw765mo ago
It's just a guestbook on a fan site, not a time capsule. People get too excited about old HTML. The web is full of stuff that never got taken down, it doesn't mean much.
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seana145mo ago
Hold up, annaw76, did you just call it digital litter? That's the whole point. It's not litter, it's proof. It's a record of how we talked and what we cared about before everything got slick and samey. Finding an old guestbook with people signing it in 2004, talking about a show that got canceled, that means something to someone. The web forgetting stuff is way worse than it keeping too much.
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parker9115mo ago
My old Myspace page is still up from 2006. I found it last year and it's just a broken layout with some embarrassing song lyrics. It's like digital litter, stuff we forgot about but the internet never throws away.
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