I don't know when it started, everyone is playing with mobile phones almost all the time, pounding Weibo, WeChat, Zhihu...
We seem to be completely inseparable from the Internet.
Whether it's where we've been, whoever you like, or other trivialities in your life, we're all on the Internet. Believe that when needed, you can just tap the keyboard to find it.
However, I don't know if you have ever thought that one day these websites and the traces we have left on them will disappear.
In fact, the first websites on the Internet have disappeared.
How many websites have disappeared? Shi Chao will first tell you a story.
In 2005, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student in the UK, was worried about preparing for tuition. This clever guy came up with an extremely angry idea: make a website, and then sell the 1 million pixels on the website in the form of advertising slots.
Once users buy these slots, they can run pattern ads and add a link to their own website for the pattern.
Through word of mouth and some marketing methods, these advertising slots were sold out in less than half a year, and Alex managed to make nearly a million dollars. This page is also filled with about 2800 websites~
In a way, it's like a small "internet museum."
Today, when we browse the museum, we find that there are more than 1,000 links that have expired or been redirected to different domains...
That said, nearly half of the 2,800 or so links that were still alive more than a decade ago were already cold.
Through this example, you should be able to feel the number of Internet websites disappearing.
Of course, some poor friends may feel that these demise websites are small sites, and they will not live long
Well, in fact, the behemoths of the Internet web 1.0 era have long since fallen.
Yahoo should be no stranger to our generation.
It is the myth of landing on the NASDAQ in the first year of its establishment, and it was the world's first portal search site and the first batch of domestic portals, sohu, NetEase and Sina are its imitators~
When the Internet first started in 1999, its number of users exceeded 100 million. Shichao remembers that his first registered email address was Yahoo's.
It is such a big brother-level website that sold itself at a price of more than $4 billion in 2017...
The Chinese Yahoo, which we are more familiar with, has been shutting down its services in 2013 in 2013 after entering China in 1999 and achieving good results.
In addition, there is another example that is closer to us - the blue sea and silver sand.
Born in 1996, Bihai Yinsha has been smooth sailing, and when the total number of netizens in the country was only 79.5 million in 2003, its home page hits have exceeded 300 million...
In the ancient era of the Chinese Internet, that GG, MM, and the network era of 886 first, it was the peak of the Chinese Internet. Tens of thousands of first-generation netizens have left their joys and sorrows here.
However, such a website that was once too good to work, in 2017, it was announced that it would completely stop operating and no longer develop access services.
Founded in 1998, the first domestic student directory website 5460 and the earliest network plug-in service 3721 in China;
Founded in 1999, the first O2O website in China, 8848, and Yitang.com, which claims to help the Minghuang generation reach the middle class;
There are also BTchina.net, ChinaZ Forum, etc.; I can't list them all...
These sites have all been famous in the history of the Internet, but they have eventually returned to dust.
Of course, under the wave of Internet development, not all old websites are hanging up. Unfortunately, there are few survivors, and compared with that year, the rivers are declining.
Tianya Community was founded in 1999, in the era of no Weibo to know Douban, netizens have mixed with Tianya even if they have seen the world~ ~
There were countless popular events on tianya that year, "Zhou VS Transvestite Forced War", 15-year-old prodigy thief Ma Huateng QQ, and Teacher Chen's hard disk door. It has triggered countless melon-eating netizens to come to the end of the world to watch. Red pole for a while~
Not only that, there were rogue Yan and Furong sisters in the end of the world; there was the god of Ning Cai, there was the bright moon of that year, and there was the world's hegemonic singing;
But no amount of glory can fight against the hero Twilight. At present, the end of the world has been calm, and only a few old netizens still hold their ground.
No website can prosper for a long time, and with the continuous evolution of the Internet form, it will eventually go from being famous to disappearing or only surviving.
Yahoo is gone, leaving only the Yahoo mailbox that Shichao has long since stopped using.
The blue sea and silver sand are gone, only the sparse memories on Weibo.
The end of the world is late, the netizens who originally squatted in the end of the world to eat melons fell in love with Weibo, and the netizens who liked to tell stories went to Zhihu...
The first websites on the Internet have gone far silently with the memories shared by netizens of an entire era.
Standing at the current famous Weibo, WeChat, Douban, perhaps decades later, it may also become a rice no, Renren network...
Not even heard from.
Perhaps by that time, the stories that have happened on these sites will eventually be nowhere to be found.
We often take it for granted that the Internet is a library where everything can be stored, and that the things we keep in will always be there for reading.
However, this is not the case, and one day the cold 404 will remind us that books will be yellowed and broken, not to mention the data stored on the server.
References: Wikipedia - Million Dollar Home BBC - Why is there so little archived content on the history of the Early Internet?
Which sites disappeared with your memories? ”