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

说明与用途

Closet‑404 让用户复活31个已消失的网站，展示其归档HTML、注释、图片以及Gemma 4生成的悼词，并提供来自SerpApi的调查报告。

问题

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

结果

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

工作流

• 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

证据

The Wayback Machine last captured that page in 2001.

来源

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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