The Useless Web, a directory of deliberately pointless internet destinations, has begun cataloging sites that no longer exist. This is a graveyard of digital ephemera, the strange and purposeless corners of the web that someone built anyway.
The loss matters because these sites represented a pre-monetization internet philosophy: build something weird, ask nothing in return. No funnels, no engagement metrics, no retention strategy. Just a page that made you click a button to go somewhere absurd. That era is measurably shrinking.
The full piece at Sidebar names the specific sites and what they did. Read it if you want proof of what the web traded away when it got serious about itself.
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