David Boles: Prairie Voice

David Boles: Prairie Voice

The Abandoned Forums

Digital Ghost Towns Where Code Still Runs

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David Boles
Sep 29, 2025
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Somewhere on a server rack in a nondescript data center, a PHP script executes every sixty seconds, checking for new posts that will never arrive.

This is the reality of thousands of message boards and early social platforms across the internet: technically alive, socially deceased, their automated functions cycling endlessly through empty spaces like w…

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