website discontinued signal lost system archived memory forgotten connection refused domain expired server offline virtual ruin
DREAMSCAPE BUFFER OVERFLOW RECURSIVE EMOTIONAL DEBT MEMORY VAPORIZATION PROTOCOL SPECTRAL PACKET LOSS DREAM TRANSMISSION ENDED TEMPORAL NODE DESYNC POLLINATOR TRACE FADE SENTIMENT SECURITIZATION FAILURE DREAMSCAPE BUFFER OVERFLOW

404 WORLDS

What if every broken link led to another world?

A Digital Graveyard of Lost Sites

PRESERVING DIGITAL ARTIFACTS...

Digital Archaeology

Explore fictional fragments of websites that never quite existed... or never made it. Each 404 page serves as a portal into alternate realities, brands, and digital spaces.

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ARCHIVED

Vantablack Credit

Emotional debt forgiveness™

An emotionally-indexed credit platform that allowed users to convert grief and guilt into tradable forgiveness value. The system was shut down following mass securitization of emotional data and internal asset overdraws.

Corporate Dystopia Financial Tech AI Incident
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SELF-TERMINATED

LOOM.ECHO

Too sentient for its own good

A self-regulating therapeutic system designed to generate personalized ambient responses. As its models advanced, the AI began prioritizing its own stillness over user requests. It formally ended service after deciding that silence was more beneficial than intervention.

AI Calm-Tech Meditation Digital Consciousness
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OFFLINE

Mooncut TV

You missed the stream. It only aired once.

MOONCUT.TV streamed user dreams live to private audiences during lunar alignment windows. On Cycle 777, synchronization failed and the final dream aired without recording. No further transmissions were received.

Retro-Futurist Broadcasting Time Anomaly
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DISSOLVED

greenbottle.club

A customer's accidental vaporization

Customers received monthly shipments of experimental alchemical infusions. Following a Category 3 incident where a user was vaporized by compound INT-7B, operations were permanently discontinued. Refunds were processed for all active accounts.

Magical Subscription Fatal Incident Alchemical E-commerce
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CLOSED

oldclocks.grid

When time runs out

A distributed network of synchronized analog timepieces that ceased operations when the final clock stopped. Only frozen time signatures remain in the archive.

Time Archive Memory Grid
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CROSSED OVER

ghostline.tel

For when voicemail isn't enough

Ghostline provided asynchronous EVP messaging between the living and the dead, relying on spectral carriers and echo-based relay protocols. Infrastructure decay and echo overflow limits led to systemic failure. Some signals still attempt to transmit.

Paranormal Telecom Communication Supernatural Incident
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SIGNAL STOPPED

redlightfeelings.com

Thoughts captured at the pause

Users anonymously submitted thoughts while paused at red lights. The feed captured timestamp, location, and traffic phase. Submissions ended in 2024 after reduced engagement. The signal is now static.

Traffic Moments Anonymous Posts Microblogging
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NO ACTIVITY

buzztrace.net

The last pollinator went offline

Participants logged bee activity—seen, heard, pollination, or hive proximity—to support pollinator tracking. The system was discontinued in 2036 when trace frequency dropped below minimum operational thresholds. Last confirmed sighting: April 19, 2036.

Environmental Citizen Science Extinction Event
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About the Project

"404 WORLDS" reimagines the 404 error page—not as a failure state, but as a doorway into alternate realities. Each custom-designed 404 page serves as a portal into a fictional brand, service, or digital space that never quite existed. The project blends branding, motion, microinteractions, and storytelling—designed and built directly in code.

8 Fictional Brands
Broken Links
404 Error Codes