Internet Graveyard [web app][multiplayer][internet culture]

Internet Graveyard is a place where startups, studios, and companies go to rest. Bury a website that has passed on and pay your respects with some flowers. Built with Are.na, Svelte, and Supabase, designed and programmed with Claude in the browser.

Impact:An open memorial for the websites that are no longer with us · Anyone can bury a site or leave flowers

Role:Concept, Design, Development

Collaborators:Designed and programmed with Claude in the browser

Link: internetgraveyard.vercel.app

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Why

Websites die without ceremony. A studio winds down, a startup is acquired and sunset, a platform goes dark, and the only trace left is a farewell note that eventually disappears too.

How

A shared graveyard. Bury the URL of a website that has passed on and it takes its place as a tombstone. Visitors wander the grounds, read the stones, and pay their respects with flowers.

Impact

An open memorial for the websites that are no longer with us · Anyone can bury a site or leave flowers

RIP to these institutions, companies, studios, platforms, and websites. The graveyard is a single open field of stones that you move through freely, with a minimap for orientation and a quiet count of who else is visiting.

Internet Graveyard overview. Dozens of tombstones scattered across a grey field around a central Internet Graveyard marker, with a minimap and a tool bar for moving, burying, and leaving flowers.
Internet Graveyard overview. Dozens of tombstones scattered across a grey field around a central Internet Graveyard marker, with a minimap and a tool bar for moving, burying, and leaving flowers.

Every stone carries the site’s last words. The face of the tombstone holds its final page, and the name is carved into the base.

Artifact's tombstone. Its farewell letter, A Farewell and a Hello, set on the face of the stone, with ARTIFACT carved into the base and flowers laid at its foot.
Artifact's tombstone. Its farewell letter, A Farewell and a Hello, set on the face of the stone, with ARTIFACT carved into the base and flowers laid at its foot.

Burying a website takes a shovel and a URL. Select the shovel, paste the address of a site that has come to an end, and lay it to rest.

Flowers are the smallest gesture the graveyard offers, and the most human one. They gather over time at the stones people remember most fondly.

Vine's tombstone with clusters of flowers left by visitors, beside scattered tufts of grass.
Vine's tombstone with clusters of flowers left by visitors, beside scattered tufts of grass.

Built with Are.na, Svelte, and Supabase, and designed and programmed with Claude in the browser.