The
idea of The Internet Cemetery was born out of
the need to preserve offerings on the internet
once their webmasters and/or sitemanagers are
not able to maintain them anymore. Without the
historic concept of the service of a cemetery it
is not possible to retrieve a service or a
person that has been lost and given up. To the
non-existence of a site that once was can be
said that it is in conflict with the purpose of
the human soul not to be able to remember, learn
and be inspired from the knowledge of what has
been done, why it came to an end , who did it
and how the respect could and or should be
continued. Furthermore it seems to be of
psychological relevance to the human deathdrive
to be able to finish one's activities and
recognize the limits of manifestation. Thus a
cemetery can even be a source of great
joy.
Practically
this means that
There
is a directory of sites that have 'died', but
are possibly still maintained elsewhere on other
servers. There is the
lost and missing site
list:
the sites on this list turned out to have ceased
to be on these addresses and are missing
(changed address, where terminted without notice
etc.) Please check this list out and
e-mail
your findings on whether the site(s) still exist
or has changed its name and appearance beyond
recognition. Sites that changed their address,
but do no longer want to maintain their redirect
pages can submit them at : The
Linking Library submit
page
of The
Order of Time
(some relevance is required to get ones
registration at this directory).
Secondly
there is the possibility of reporting
a burial
of a site, announcing
for a 'mourning'-period of time before the
termination of the living service of a site.
This
routine of termination has the double function
of:
1)
Giving people the chance to know what is
disappearing from the net and where its
resting place would be.
2)
Giving opportunity to take over the function
of the service once offered.
After
this mourning-period the site can be maintained
freely accessible to the common surfer for an
certain period of time -for as long as there is
public interest and goodwill- after which the
site can be compressed in a Zip-file and be
archived with a small description - a
'tombstone'- for free downloading.
Trough
sponsoring all these services can be for
free.
The
concept of the Internet Cemetery was born purely
out of the Filognosy
of The Order of Time to serve the interests of
the soul. Anyone seriously interested in this
concept of service is kindly requested to send
an e-mail
to The Internet Cemetery:
report-a-site