i’m lifting branches overhead and watching my step for roots protruding into the path. i’m deep in the overgrown forests of a long-forgotten website; i’ve been untangling ancient sitemaps and standing awestruck on promontories overlooking fields of broken links and spectral 404s
the morose and somber winds blowing over a forgotten or failed side project; the clouded and lightless skies over a landscape meticulously designed and then abandoned. the anxious but certain energy of an empty painted world, stoically awaiting its doom.
sooner than later, The Founders will disembark from their parked handles and domains, and the bits and bytes of this world will vanish, slowly and then all at once, into the æthernet