#especially back in the 90s/00s when you'd find a website “Under Construction!” but it stayed that way for years

[impishtubist]

There is something sobering about reading a fic that hasn't been updated in years, and then clicking over to the author's profile to find that it's the last thing they updated....they didn't switch fandoms or anything, they just stopped posting altogether.

#i can't properly put it into words but the internet is a graveyard sometimes #especially back in the 90s/00s when you'd find a website “Under Construction!” but it stayed that way for years #or blogs where people just stopped posting entries #fics where the author abruptly stopped posting updates and stopped replying to comments #email addresses that bounce back #links that lead you to slashcity or angelfire or geocities sites and therefore are broken #i hope it just means OP got distracted by RL but i always wonder! #and there's no way of ever finding out