Comment by mrkramer

Commercial web was something wildly new and wildly interesting for all the people that used it because such a thing never existed before but web consolidated over the years and now people find it boring and not that useful. We should support and fight more for the "Open Web" nature of the web and slow down with walled gardens.

Speaking of "Where Have All the Websites Gone?", they are most likely dead. There are millions of dead websites that no longer exist on the WWW. I didn't do any formal research or data mining project but my assumption is that there are more dead websites than there are alive websites or in another words websites that exist today on the web. Since history is a passion of my, I think I and others should do more to explore and perhaps revive those websites for the sake of information and knowledge preservation and retrieval.