The Internet is a Thin Cylinder: Supporting Millions, Supported by One
The internet is not always a busy place full of charm, but that is only a blink of it. The other places? Either no one knew it existed, or the only thing that knew it was the bots. Why is this an a...

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The internet is not always a busy place full of charm, but that is only a blink of it. The other places? Either no one knew it existed, or the only thing that knew it was the bots. Why is this an actual thing? You might have been thinking, how could this happen? As of 2026, there are at least 1 billion websites, and if all these just have a few links to another, everyone should be able to see and visit them. But this is not the case, the reason is not because people cannot find it, it is because they ignored it, because the site had been flushed away by the high-speed development of the Internet. Some of the sites and tools might be a legendary in the past. But after new tools and technology came in, it is quickly forgotten, only leaving the few people quietly maintaining it. An example of this There are millions of examples of old websites that have been forgotten by time. We can take the GNU project Nano as an example that is fairly neutral, not too active, but not completely dead. I