I held a séance for 31 dead websites. The most honest ghost said "that never made it into my HTML."

Описание и применение

Проект Closet‑404 позволяет пользователям «воссоздать» 31 умерших веб‑сайта, показывая их архивный HTML, комментарии и изображения, а также генерируя элегии с помощью Gemma 4 и отчёты о закрытии с SerpApi.

Задача

How to recover and present the content and history of dead websites using archived HTML and AI-generated eulogies.

Результат

31 dead sites are now accessible as interactive cases with authentic archived content, AI‑generated eulogies, and searchable coroner reports, all for free.

Рабочий процесс

• Collect Wayback snapshots for each site
• Extract HTML comments, images, generator tags, and page text
• Store extracted data
• Use Gemma 4 to generate eulogies from stored HTML
• Run SerpApi searches for each domain to build coroner reports
• Build 3D closet UI to display cases
• Implement search, resurrect, and remembrance features

Доказательства

The Wayback Machine last captured that page in 2001.

Источник

The model that said it is Gemma 4, an open‑weight model, and it is only allowed to remember what survived in the HTML.

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A coroner runs a live web search (SerpApi) for each domain, and Gemma summarises only those results, with [n] citations.

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