What Will Become of Deadspin’s Corpse?

The founder of the dearly departed website sees a few possibilities

New York Magazine
Nov 5 · 7 min read
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By Will Leitch

What happens to a beloved old website when it dies but pretends it hasn’t? I don’t mean when it’s taken offline entirely: I will revere the late, great Television Without Pity for the rest of my internet life, but that URL and all its archives…

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