Baldwin got off the boat, retired his deck shoes, and set up Ghost Sites, a site that offers a whimsical chronicle of abandoned Web sites gathering cobwebs in cyberspace.
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It is revealed that Feardotcom is, in fact, a ghost site made by one of Pratt's first victims, who is seeking revenge because people watched her being tortured and murdered.
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Although he sells mouse pads and T-shirts, he said, he makes no money from Ghost Sites; he runs one site ad in return for free space from the site's Webmaster.
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For a humorous look at pages that once burned brightly and then flickered out, visit Ghost Sites ( www . disobey . com / ghostsites ), an active page that chronicles inactive ones and is updated monthly.
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"Ghost sites " are in the offing, as an estimated 20 percent of the Fortune 500 companies with electronic storefronts, or commercial web sites, stop maintaining them or shut them down altogether, Gens says.
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An amateur historian, Baldwin got the idea for the museum, also known as Ghost Sites, while noticing pages going dark on Pathfinder and other giant portals during the Internet's first big content shakeout, near the end of 1996.
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According to Steve Baldwin of disobey . com's Ghost Sites, it received recognition for its " pioneering use of borderless frames " and " topical, eclectic editorial content ", and " was an important forerunner of the'Blog .'" The BitSifter Digest stopped updating in 2001 and no longer exists at the domain name bitsifter . com.
