追忆消逝的网站：互联网记忆、媒介传记与网站历史

Remembering Disappeared Websites: Internet memory, Biographies of media and web historiography

消逝的网站及其记忆是媒介研究和互联网历史研究尚未开掘的话题,为理解互联网社会史提供了新视角。本文首次关注该话题,通过分析250余篇/节网友回忆277个消逝的网站的文章,探讨网友记忆什么网站,为何记忆,以何种方式记忆等问题。研究发现,消逝的网站在网友记忆中是有生命的,而不仅仅是媒体或技术平台。网友在记忆中为消逝的网站立传,也以自传式记忆的方式回忆网络生活、友谊与青春。网友在回忆中追忆变迁的时代,怀念中国互联网的"黄金时代",并表达对当下互联网发展的批判与期待。这些发现说明,在中国关于互联网的技术想象,并非是乌托邦的空想,而是建立在个体实践经验之上的、对现实有批判、对未来有希望的乌托邦现实主义。

As a new topic in media research and Internet history research, the study of memories of disappeared websites provides a new perspective for understanding the history of the Internet. We analyzed 250 memory narratives in which more than 277 Chinese disappeared websites are mentioned. The analysis shows that Chinese netizens remember disappeared website as living persons, not just as media or technologies. In their memories, netizens not only narrate the biographies of the websites, but also their autobiographies, especially their internet life, friendship and youth. Criticisms of current situations of the intemet in China are often expressed through their remembrances of the changed ages. These findings show that the technological imagination of the Interact in China is not blindly utopian, but a utopian realism based on individual experience, critiques of reality and hopes for the future.