Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

A Hacker News post about Rip.so, a “graveyard” for dead internet things, sparked debate over whether old web products are actually gone or just faded.

Commenters pointed to survivors like Tamagotchi, personal homepages, MSN-era chat, webrings, and guestbooks as formats that never fully disappeared.

The thread also revisited the decline of early web platforms such as Skype, Hotmail, and RealPlayer, and how hard it is to move users between chat services.

Overall, the discussion showed that “dead” internet culture still shapes nostalgia, user habits, and new small-web projects like Mastodon and Lemmy.