# Does anyone know what happened to this website?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-what-happened-to-this-website/315945
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 7, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-what-happened-to-this-website/315945 "2005-08-07T03:12:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-what-happened-to-this-website/315945/1 "2005-08-07T03:12:23Z")
Okay, this is SAD. And I know it. However… my favorite website disappeared (sniff.)
[www.webwasteland.com](http://www.webwasteland.com)
Before that, it was [weirdlinks.com](http://weirdlinks.com)
Oh, but if you’ve ever been to it, you know why I missed it so!! It was run by a very… interesting person who lived in a trailer in San Jose, and apparently really had no mission whatsoever in life other than keeping up this website. It gathered together every bizarre link on the web, and was updated daily. And now it’s gone… GONE… (weeps uncontrollably.) Does anyone remember it? Did anyone else read it? Does anyone know anything about what happened to it???
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-what-happened-to-this-website/315945/2 "2005-08-07T03:51:41Z")
The only useful clue I’ve come across is [this one](http://portal.eatonweb.com/weblog.php?weblog_id=8686):
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> does anybody know what happened to [webwasteland.com](http://webwasteland.com) speaking of link digger? It hasn’t been available for over a week. Last I heard he was going to the hospital for an ongoing ailment.
Looks like medical problems may be to blame here. Google still has tons of pages cached, though, even if the image URLs are broken, so you can still get to the links.
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### Author:  [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2005, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-what-happened-to-this-website/315945/3 "2005-08-07T07:15:46Z")
[http://webwasteland.tripod.com/](http://webwasteland.tripod.com/)
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### Author:  [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-what-happened-to-this-website/315945/4 "2005-08-07T15:42:04Z")
I checked out the tripod site and believe me, it’s not the same one!! 😛 Thanks, though. Poor Link Digger. I hope he’s okay… he’s brought so many hours of amusement to us all (if we ever checked out the website, anyway.)