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Peep through the gates of the Internet Cemetery, and you can see the gravediggers are never idle. Day after day, hour after hour, the dead domains come in, ready to be interred with all the other websites which withered from a lack of interest, ran out of money, were overtaken by a rival with snazzier technology, or just lost their cool.

Not even Google is safe in the long term. Somewhere in the school system there might be someone who, in a few years, will be a brainy postgrad, who, with a few fancy algorithms, invents a new way of searching.

And overlooking the cemetery, in a virtual kind of way, is another place: the Twilight Home for Once-Fashionable Websites.

Here,

sit the once great names of the net: Compuserve, Lycos, Excite, Prodigy, GeoCities, and AOL

Netscape’s heading there, and so, too, is Friends Reunited. And, if last week’s runes are read correctly, the day may not be far off when Second Life, Facebook and Twitter end up there too. Read more at www.independent.co.uk