Its 1996 WebRing connected graveyards, epitaphs, mourning customs, and cemetery culture through reciprocal links and human approval. A museum education project later recommended its epitaph and symbolism pages. The original tools may be offline, but the page preserves a hand-built community of people treating cemeteries as history, not just scenery.
Original cemetery archive: https://www.alsirat.com/silence/
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-city-of-the-silent-linked-cemeteries-before-social-media/
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Original cemetery archive: https://www.alsirat.com/silence/
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-city-of-the-silent-linked-cemeteries-before-social-media/
#ancientweb #cemeteryhistory #webdirectories #materialculture
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Categories: Ancient Web & Internet History [c23]