categories of web sites

that you find when cleaning up your bookmark files.

1. The really useful sites that are gone, and have to be trawled for out of the Internet Archive.

1a. The ones that aren't in the Internet archive.

2. The once-useful link farms that you know have gone cruddy, because they still list sites from categories 1 and 1a.

3. The pages that don't come up from the bookmark because the site owner has moved them to another directory, usually one with a title synonymous with the old directory title.

4. The download pages for freeware that have become ad pages for expensiveware.

5. The highly-touted new sites that didn't yet have anything on them when you bookmarked them, and turn out still to have nothing on them five years later.

6. The sites that have been eaten by other sites that you already had bookmarked.

7. The blogs that have moved to new hosts.

8. The pay sites you bookmarked when you had access to them at your last job, but don't have access to any more.

8a. The ones you still know the password to.

9. The sites that you can't tell about, because the host isn't responding.

10. The sites that are still where you left them.