The Decline of Script Directories: Modern Times Dinosaurs [IMHO]
Websites don’t exist forever. Through the years I have seen a number of websites that continuously grew bigger and more popular, while others started to decay. Today, the latter are not relevant anymore. Several blogs I have read haven’t been provided with fresh articles for years. This is the natural evolution of the web. Owners of websites are quick to abandon websites that are not cost-effective any more, or simply as they want to or have to invest their time in other projects. Personal aspects also influence whether a website is continued or not. Think of factors such as work, children, marriage. Moreover, websites are again and again bought by big corporations, which in the aftermath more often than not only provide the bare necessities to keep them alive.