I ran across something interesting in a guestbook the other day. To make a long story short, I had an old email address for someone, and tried to track them down. I found their signature in an old (1999) guestbook. While I was at that site, I discovered that a hacker had planted some redirect code in the guestbook.

I tried to contact the site author, but the email bounced. It seems the site might have been a zombie site on autopilot since 2002. As time goes on, I wonder how much of the web might become like that.

If you ever saw a Stephen King movie named “The Langoliers,” perhaps we need something like that to move zombie sites out of the way.