Ghost sites:

This exhibit - The Museum of E-Failure - is an attempt to actively preserve the home pages of sites that will probably disappear in the next few months. Our goal is not to laugh at the fallen, but to preserve their last image, before all traces of these sites' existence are deleted from history's view. It is my hope that these screenshots may serve as a reminder of the glory, folly, and historically unique design sensibilities of the Web's Great Gilded Age. May no historical revisionists ever claim that this wacky period didn't happen - these screenshots prove that it did!
-from the Ghost Sites main page.

Ghost Sites [January 7, 2002]