[ { "id": "ux", "name": "UX design", "category": "Design", "date": "15 Mar 2023", "year": 2023, "by": "Melody Koh · Prototypr", "title": "UX is dead, long-live Product Design", "url": "https://blog.prototypr.io/ux-is-dead-long-live-product-design-77cb034b3fb4", "claim": "The headline buries UX; the subtitle says it was rebranded as product design. This is a critique of industry positioning, not proof that understanding users disappeared.", "changed": "Job titles, expectations and the market for narrowly defined design work change. That does not erase research, interaction design or judgment.", "zombie": "The supposed successor still needs to understand users. Nielsen Norman Group explicitly argues that UX continues at the level of journeys and whole customer experiences. This zombie has changed its LinkedIn title.", "lifeTitle": "Kim Flaherty: UX Is Dead, Long Live UX", "lifeUrl": "https://www.nngroup.com/articles/long-live-ux/", "lifeDate": "21 Feb 2025", "epitaph": "REBRANDED. STILL ASKING WHY.", "note": "Headline, date, subtitle and public excerpt verified; member-only remainder not reviewed. Earlier discussion of UX death exists, but this is the earliest specific dated pronouncement captured in this collection.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Rechecked 10 September 2026: public excerpt or metadata only; no full-text verification is claimed." }, { "id": "mcp", "name": "MCP", "category": "Technology", "date": "6 Apr 2026", "year": 2026, "by": "Nick Babich · UX Planet", "title": "MCP is Dead", "url": "https://uxplanet.org/mcp-is-dead-cf16b667ba6d", "claim": "Babich argues against using MCP in Claude Code, citing complexity and other practical problems. The headline declares the entire protocol dead.", "changed": "Whether to use a protocol is a trade-off involving integration costs, security and the task. A criticism of one workflow is not a shutdown notice.", "zombie": "The official MCP roadmap was updated after the obituary and still describes active working groups, specification priorities and maintained SDKs. Debatable architecture. Detectable pulse.", "lifeTitle": "Official Model Context Protocol roadmap", "lifeUrl": "https://modelcontextprotocol.io/development/roadmap", "lifeDate": "22 Aug 2026", "epitaph": "DIED OF TOO MANY CONNECTIONS.", "note": "Headline, author, date and opening argument inspected. Article is member-only; the five arguments were not all accessible.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Rechecked 10 September 2026: public excerpt or metadata only; no full-text verification is claimed." }, { "id": "process", "name": "The design process", "category": "Design", "date": "1 Mar 2026", "year": 2026, "by": "Jenny Wen interview · Lenny’s Newsletter", "title": "The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it.", "url": "https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-design-process-is-dead", "claim": "The interview description challenges the classic discovery, mockup and iteration sequence in AI product development.", "changed": "A rigid sequence may be less useful when teams can prototype directly. Different sequencing is not the disappearance of design work.", "zombie": "The same episode describes what designers do at Anthropic and the designer archetypes Wen is hiring. The people, decisions and judgment survive the process diagram.", "lifeTitle": "Episode description: designer roles and hiring", "lifeUrl": "https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-design-process-is-dead", "lifeDate": "1 Mar 2026", "epitaph": "THE DOUBLE DIAMOND WAS A PHASE.", "note": "Public episode title, date and summary reviewed, not the full paid transcript. This grave targets the broad headline; the interview has a narrower claim.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Rechecked 10 September 2026: public excerpt or metadata only; no full-text verification is claimed." }, { "id": "webdesign", "name": "Web design", "category": "Design", "date": "8 Jun 2015", "year": 2015, "by": "Sergio Nouvel · UX Magazine", "title": "Why Web Design is Dead", "url": "https://uxmag.com/articles/why-web-design-is-dead", "claim": "Templates, mature patterns, AI and mobile apps supposedly exhausted web design as a discipline.", "changed": "Routine pages became easier to produce. Cross-channel experience and product design became more prominent.", "zombie": "The original article itself says designers are far from obsolete and their work will continue. WordPress still ships releases and web interfaces still need design. The funeral was really a career repositioning.", "lifeTitle": "WordPress release and community activity", "lifeUrl": "https://wordpress.org/news/", "lifeDate": "19 Aug 2026 release; checked 10 Sep 2026", "epitaph": "SURVIVED THE TEMPLATE. AND THE TEMPLATE’S TEMPLATE.", "note": "Original article or public excerpt inspected. Dates identify the earliest documented claim in this collection, not an exhaustive historical first.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Public supporting material rechecked 10 September 2026. A sign of life does not establish commercial success." }, { "id": "web", "name": "The Web", "category": "Technology", "date": "17 Aug 2010", "year": 2010, "by": "Chris Anderson & Michael Wolff · WIRED", "title": "The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet", "url": "https://www.wired.com/2010/08/ff-webrip/", "claim": "WIRED argued that apps and other internet services were eclipsing the open Web.", "changed": "The share of internet traffic is not the same thing as the usefulness or survival of a medium. Apps did become important.", "zombie": "WordPress is still releasing web publishing software. The obituary itself is still served as a web page. That does not prove the Web is unchallenged; it disproves a literal extinction reading.", "lifeTitle": "WordPress news and release archive", "lifeUrl": "https://wordpress.org/news/", "lifeDate": "7 Sep 2026 news; checked 10 Sep 2026", "epitaph": "THIS OBITUARY IS A WEBSITE.", "note": "Original article or public excerpt inspected. Dates identify the earliest documented claim in this collection, not an exhaustive historical first.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Public supporting material rechecked 10 September 2026. A sign of life does not establish commercial success." }, { "id": "seo", "name": "SEO", "category": "Marketing", "date": "2005", "year": 2005, "by": "Jeremy Schoemaker, reported retrospectively by Aira", "title": "Every time SEO has died", "url": "https://aira.net/blog/every-time-seo-has-died/", "claim": "Aira traces an SEO death declaration to Schoemaker in 2005. Ken Krogue later published The Death of SEO in Forbes in 2012.", "changed": "Manipulative ranking tactics lose effectiveness. Search interfaces and traffic economics change. None of that makes discoverability irrelevant.", "zombie": "Google still publishes an SEO Starter Guide that explains how to improve a site’s presence in Search. The techniques evolve; the need to be found persists.", "lifeTitle": "Google Search Central: SEO Starter Guide", "lifeUrl": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide", "lifeDate": "Current guide checked 10 Sep 2026", "epitaph": "OPTIMIZED FOR THE AFTERLIFE.", "note": "2005 is secondary retrospective evidence, not a recovered original. The 1997 Richard Hoy claim concerned search engines, so it gets its own grave.", "extra": [ { "title": "Ken Krogue: The Death of SEO (20 Jul 2012)", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenkrogue/2012/07/20/the-death-of-seo-the-rise-of-social-pr-and-real-content/" } ], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Public supporting material rechecked 10 September 2026. A sign of life does not establish commercial success." }, { "id": "search", "name": "Search engines", "category": "Technology", "date": "Nov 1997", "year": 1997, "by": "Richard Hoy, quoted by Danny Sullivan", "title": "Is SEO Dead? 1997 Prediction, Meet 2009 Reality", "url": "https://searchengineland.com/is-seo-dead-1997-prediction-meet-2009-reality-32113", "claim": "Hoy called search engines a dead-end technology and said they were dead already but did not know it. Sullivan reproduced the 1997 message in 2009.", "changed": "Unstable rankings and overdependence on one traffic source are real problems. Hoy turned a promotion strategy problem into an extinction claim.", "zombie": "Google’s current documentation still describes automated crawling, indexing and search discovery. Search changes shape, including AI answers, without the information-retrieval problem vanishing.", "lifeTitle": "Google Search Central: how search and SEO work", "lifeUrl": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-starter-guide", "lifeDate": "Checked 10 Sep 2026", "epitaph": "FOUND DEAD. INDEXED IMMEDIATELY.", "note": "November 1997 is documented through Sullivan’s 16 Dec 2009 retrospective, which quotes and links the original mailing-list post.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Public supporting material rechecked 10 September 2026. A sign of life does not establish commercial success." }, { "id": "saas", "name": "SaaS", "category": "Technology", "date": "Dec 2024", "year": 2024, "by": "Satya Nadella discussion, interpreted by commentators", "title": "Is SaaS Dead? Rethinking the Future of Software in the Age of AI", "url": "https://www.idc.com/resource-center/blog/is-saas-dead-rethinking-the-future-of-software-in-the-age-of-ai/", "claim": "The SaaS-is-dead narrative grew around Nadella’s BG2 discussion of agents and business applications. IDC repeats that framing.", "changed": "Agents can change how users reach business logic, and vendors may change pricing. Databases, permissions, workflows and software services do not evaporate.", "zombie": "IDC’s own analysis concludes that SaaS is not dead but undergoing a metamorphosis. A different interface or commercial model is a transformation of the service, not its burial.", "lifeTitle": "IDC analysis by Bo Lykkegaard", "lifeUrl": "https://www.idc.com/resource-center/blog/is-saas-dead-rethinking-the-future-of-software-in-the-age-of-ai/", "lifeDate": "2 Dec 2025", "epitaph": "THE SUBSCRIPTION OUTLIVED THE SUBSCRIBER.", "note": "December 2024 comes from IDC’s retrospective. “SaaS is dead” is presented as the public framing, not as a verified verbatim quotation from Nadella.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Public supporting material rechecked 10 September 2026. A sign of life does not establish commercial success." }, { "id": "coding", "name": "Programming", "category": "Work", "date": "20 Dec 2022", "year": 2022, "by": "Matt Welsh · Communications of the ACM", "title": "The End of Programming", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1145/3570220", "claim": "Welsh describes the approaching end of classical computer science and programming as we know it.", "changed": "AI changes who produces code and how. Specifying behavior, integrating systems and verifying outcomes remain separate responsibilities.", "zombie": "DORA’s 2025 report studies AI-assisted software development, rather than a world in which software development ceased. Assistance and changed workflows are compatible with a living discipline.", "lifeTitle": "DORA: State of AI-assisted Software Development 2025", "lifeUrl": "https://dora.dev/research/2025/dora-report/", "lifeDate": "2025", "epitaph": "THE BUGS DECLINED TO ATTEND.", "note": "ACM metadata and abstract inspected. Published online 20 Dec 2022; January 2023 issue. No claim that this is the first-ever prediction about programming.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Rechecked 10 September 2026: public excerpt or metadata only; no full-text verification is claimed." }, { "id": "radiology", "name": "Radiologists", "category": "Work", "date": "2016", "year": 2016, "by": "Geoffrey Hinton · Creative Destruction Lab", "title": "Geoff Hinton: On Radiology", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HMPRXstSvQ", "claim": "Hinton said people should stop training radiologists and expected deep learning to outperform them within five years, as documented by a 2020 medical editorial.", "changed": "Performance on image tasks is not equivalent to taking responsibility for an entire medical specialty. Automation can alter parts of the job.", "zombie": "The RSNA and ACR still describe radiologists’ specialized training, image interpretation and clinical responsibilities. The editorial explains why treating a changing specialty as one fixed prediction task misses the point.", "lifeTitle": "RSNA / ACR: Professions in Diagnostic Radiology", "lifeUrl": "https://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info/professions-diagnostic-radiology", "lifeDate": "Current professional guidance checked 10 Sep 2026", "epitaph": "SECOND OPINION: STILL HERE.", "note": "2016 statement verified through the 2020 editorial, not by watching the original video. We do not infer job growth from the existence of a professional page.", "extra": [ { "title": "Felipe Soares Torres, Radiologia Brasileira (Nov–Dec 2020)", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7720669/" } ], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Public supporting material rechecked 10 September 2026. A sign of life does not establish commercial success." }, { "id": "prompts", "name": "Prompt engineering", "category": "Work", "date": "6 Mar 2024", "year": 2024, "by": "Dina Genkina · IEEE Spectrum", "title": "AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead", "url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/prompt-engineering-is-dead", "claim": "Research on automated prompt tuning prompted a dramatic obituary for human prompt engineering.", "changed": "Searching for magic wording can be automated. Defining objectives, supplying context, evaluating outputs and operating reliable systems remain work.", "zombie": "The same article says prompt engineering will live on under some name. Claude’s current developer documentation still teaches when and how to use it. A narrow technique and a whole profession are different claims.", "lifeTitle": "Claude documentation: prompt engineering overview", "lifeUrl": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/overview", "lifeDate": "Checked 10 Sep 2026", "epitaph": "ACT AS A LIVING PROFESSIONAL.", "note": "Original article or public excerpt inspected. Dates identify the earliest documented claim in this collection, not an exhaustive historical first.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Public supporting material rechecked 10 September 2026. A sign of life does not establish commercial success." }, { "id": "devops", "name": "DevOps", "category": "Work", "date": "22 Sep 2022", "year": 2022, "by": "Aeris Ransom · The New Stack", "title": "DevOps Is Dead. Embrace Platform Engineering", "url": "https://thenewstack.io/devops-is-dead-embrace-platform-engineering/", "claim": "The article promotes platform engineering as the answer to the cognitive load placed on developers.", "changed": "Internal platforms can make delivery easier. That is compatible with shared operational responsibility and continuous improvement.", "zombie": "DORA still researches software delivery and operations performance in its 2025 report. A platform can support DevOps practices. A new department name does not make the underlying work vanish.", "lifeTitle": "DORA 2025 research", "lifeUrl": "https://dora.dev/research/2025/dora-report/", "lifeDate": "2025", "epitaph": "BURIED BY ANOTHER PLATFORM TEAM.", "note": "Original article or public excerpt inspected. Dates identify the earliest documented claim in this collection, not an exhaustive historical first.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Public supporting material rechecked 10 September 2026. A sign of life does not establish commercial success." }, { "id": "agile", "name": "Agile", "category": "Work", "date": "4 Mar 2014", "year": 2014, "by": "Dave Thomas · PragDave", "title": "Agile is Dead (Long Live Agility)", "url": "https://pragdave.me/thoughts/active/2014-03-04-time-to-kill-agile.html", "claim": "An Agile Manifesto signatory attacked the commercialized noun Agile and the industry surrounding it.", "changed": "Thomas was defending agility: small steps, feedback and adaptation. He was not announcing that iterative work had stopped.", "zombie": "The argument itself preserves agility, and the 2020 Scrum Guide still codifies iterative, incremental work. The zombie is an overextended brand name, not proof that every branded practice works.", "lifeTitle": "The Scrum Guide", "lifeUrl": "https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html", "lifeDate": "Nov 2020", "epitaph": "THE FUNERAL NEEDS A RETROSPECTIVE.", "note": "Original article or public excerpt inspected. Dates identify the earliest documented claim in this collection, not an exhaustive historical first.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Public supporting material rechecked 10 September 2026. A sign of life does not establish commercial success." }, { "id": "thinking", "name": "Design thinking", "category": "Design", "date": "5 Apr 2011", "year": 2011, "by": "Bruce Nussbaum · Fast Company", "title": "Design Thinking Is a Failed Experiment. So What’s Next?", "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/1663558/design-thinking-is-a-failed-experiment-so-whats-next", "claim": "A prominent advocate called design thinking a failed experiment and shifted his focus to creative intelligence.", "changed": "A process can be oversold and badly implemented. That criticism does not erase observation, prototyping and learning from people.", "zombie": "IDEO.org still offers a practical human-centered design toolkit with methods for inquiry and iteration. The useful practices survive critiques of the packaging.", "lifeTitle": "IDEO.org Design Kit: methods", "lifeUrl": "https://www.designkit.org/methods.html", "lifeDate": "Current toolkit checked 10 Sep 2026", "epitaph": "WE EMPATHIZED WITH THE COFFIN.", "note": "Original headline and 5 Apr 2011 date verified through search indexing; Fast Company full text unavailable. The Design Gym’s commentary corroborates the argument.", "extra": [ { "title": "The Design Gym: commentary linking Nussbaum’s article", "url": "https://www.thedesigngym.com/designthinkingfailed/" } ], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Rechecked 10 September 2026: the original full text remains inaccessible; retrospective corroboration and its limits are retained." }, { "id": "marketing", "name": "Marketing", "category": "Marketing", "date": "9 Aug 2012", "year": 2012, "by": "Bill Lee · Harvard Business Review", "title": "Marketing Is Dead", "url": "https://hbr.org/2012/08/marketing-is-dead", "claim": "Lee’s opening explicitly declares traditional advertising, PR, branding and corporate communications dead.", "changed": "Peer influence and customer relationships challenge conventional persuasion. The article is advocating a different marketing logic.", "zombie": "The American Marketing Association still maintains an active body of marketing practice. More tellingly, the proposed replacement still pursues marketing outcomes. A new approach does not eliminate the function.", "lifeTitle": "American Marketing Association: marketing resources", "lifeUrl": "https://www.ama.org/topics/marketing/", "lifeDate": "Checked 10 Sep 2026", "epitaph": "THE FUNERAL HAS A SPONSOR.", "note": "Title, date, author and public opening reviewed. Full HBR article may require access.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Public supporting material rechecked 10 September 2026. A sign of life does not establish commercial success." }, { "id": "email", "name": "Email", "category": "Communication", "date": "16 Jun 2010", "year": 2010, "by": "Sheryl Sandberg, reported by Fast Company", "title": "Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Is Embracing the End of E-mail", "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/1660619/facebook-coo-sheryl-sandberg-on-the-end-of-e-mail-branding-in-social-networks", "claim": "Sandberg said email was probably going away, using teenagers’ communication habits to anticipate the future.", "changed": "Messaging and social platforms changed personal communication. That did not establish what would happen to workplace, account and transactional email.", "zombie": "Google maintains current documentation for creating a Gmail account and signing in to Gmail. WordPress also offers email subscriptions to its news. New channels coexist with old ones.", "lifeTitle": "Google: Create a Google Account for Gmail", "lifeUrl": "https://support.google.com/mail/answer/56256?hl=en", "lifeDate": "Checked 10 Sep 2026", "epitaph": "YOUR FUNERAL CONFIRMATION IS IN SPAM.", "note": "16 Jun 2010 is the indexed Fast Company report date. Exact statement corroborated in EditMe’s 14 Jul 2010 article; original full article unavailable.", "extra": [ { "title": "EditMe: Facebook COO declares Email is dead (14 Jul 2010)", "url": "https://www.editme.com/facebook-coo-declares-email-is-dead" }, { "title": "WordPress News: email subscription and current publishing", "url": "https://wordpress.org/news/" } ], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Rechecked 10 September 2026: the original full text remains inaccessible; retrospective corroboration and its limits are retained." }, { "id": "rss", "name": "RSS", "category": "Technology", "date": "31 May 2017", "year": 2017, "by": "Jérémy Decool · software architect", "title": "RSS is dead, long life to JSONFeed", "url": "https://www.jdecool.fr/en/blog/2017/05/31/rss-is-dead-long-life-to-jsonfeed.html", "claim": "Decool presented JSON Feed as a replacement for RSS, emphasizing the convenience of JSON over XML.", "changed": "A new serialization format does not automatically replace an established publishing and subscription ecosystem.", "zombie": "WordPress.com’s feed documentation, reviewed in September 2026, still explains RSS feeds. Both formats can exist. This particular corpse keeps delivering updates.", "lifeTitle": "WordPress.com: RSS feeds", "lifeUrl": "https://wordpress.com/support/feeds/", "lifeDate": "8 Sep 2026", "epitaph": "STILL FEEDING THE LIVING.", "note": "Earliest specific dated original captured here. Earlier RSS-death discussions exist; this collection does not establish the first-ever one.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Public supporting material rechecked 10 September 2026. A sign of life does not establish commercial success." }, { "id": "passwords", "name": "Passwords", "category": "Technology", "date": "2004", "year": 2004, "by": "Bill Gates, recalled by NIST", "title": "A previously unknown vulnerability", "url": "https://www.nist.gov/blogs/cybersecurity-insights/previously-unknown-vulnerability", "claim": "Gates predicted the demise of passwords and described why people would rely on them less, as recounted by NIST.", "changed": "Passwords have serious weaknesses, and passkeys provide a better option in many situations. Replacement across all systems is a separate claim.", "zombie": "NIST’s 2025 authentication guidance still specifies requirements for passwords. Stronger alternatives coexist with an enormous migration problem. Less desirable does not mean nonexistent.", "lifeTitle": "NIST SP 800-63B: password requirements", "lifeUrl": "https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp800-63b.html", "lifeDate": "2025", "epitaph": "RESET LINK EXPIRES IN TEN MINUTES.", "note": "2004 supported by NIST’s retrospective. Day and month are deliberately not inferred. No claim that passwords should remain the preferred choice.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Public supporting material rechecked 10 September 2026. A sign of life does not establish commercial success." }, { "id": "metaverse", "name": "The metaverse", "category": "Technology", "date": "8 May 2023", "year": 2023, "by": "Ed Zitron · Business Insider", "title": "RIP Metaverse, we hardly knew ye", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5", "claim": "Zitron wrote an obituary for the metaverse as attention and investment shifted toward generative AI.", "changed": "The sweeping business narrative lost credibility. That is distinct from every virtual-world product closing.", "zombie": "Meta still offers Horizon Worlds creator tools and documentation. That is a limited sign of life, not evidence that the grand metaverse promises succeeded or that the economics are healthy.", "lifeTitle": "Meta Horizon Worlds developer resources", "lifeUrl": "https://developers.meta.com/horizon-worlds/", "lifeDate": "Checked 10 Sep 2026", "epitaph": "EVEN THE GHOSTS WORK REMOTELY.", "note": "Original article or public excerpt inspected. Dates identify the earliest documented claim in this collection, not an exhaustive historical first.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Public supporting material rechecked 10 September 2026. A sign of life does not establish commercial success." }, { "id": "interfaces", "name": "Interfaces", "category": "Design", "date": "10 Sep · year not shown", "year": null, "by": "Alex Banks · user-supplied screenshot", "title": "The end of the interface", "url": "assets/interface-source.png", "claim": "The screenshot argues that plain English is the last interface people will need to learn, reducing the need to master specialist software.", "changed": "Natural language can lower some barriers. A conversation still has an interface, and users still need feedback, correction, visibility and control.", "zombie": "The design-process interview discusses why chatbot interfaces may be durable. Even the proposed replacement has interaction design. The controls you are using to explore this grave are an immediate demonstration.", "lifeTitle": "Jenny Wen interview: chatbot interfaces and design work", "lifeUrl": "https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-design-process-is-dead", "lifeDate": "1 Mar 2026", "epitaph": "DIED WHILE LOADING THIS BUTTON.", "note": "Screenshot evidence only. It shows SEP 10 but no year; captured file supplied on 10 Sep 2026. Full article and original URL were not verified. This date is excluded from chronological first-claim comparisons.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-10", "auditNote": "Rechecked 10 September 2026: no original URL or year was established." }, { "id": "gupy", "category": "Work", "year": "?", "by": "Marcelle Nogueira · LinkedIn", "title": "Descanse em paz GUPY!", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marcelle-c-nogueira_descanse-em-paz-gupy-candidatos-n%C3%A3o-aguentam-share-7503793609314594816-44S1/", "lifeTitle": "Gupy | Impulsione o seu RH", "lifeUrl": "https://www.gupy.io/", "name": "Gupy", "date": "Date unverified", "epitaph": "BURIED. STILL REQUESTING YOUR RÉSUMÉ.", "claim": "A LinkedIn post says “Rest in peace, Gupy”, criticizes impersonal selection processes, and recommends alternative job platforms and courses. It does not report a company closure.", "changed": "Candidates have more places to search. Frustration with recruitment and advice to diversify applications are not evidence that a platform ceased operating.", "zombie": "Gupy still presents recruitment software, pricing, demonstrations, candidate support and access to its jobs portal. A headline can bury a brand while its application forms keep breathing.", "note": "The matching post was read on 11 September 2026. Its exact publication date and status as the first such claim are unverified. The screenshot alone does not identify its author. The company website shows a continuing offering, not proof of service quality.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-14", "lifeDate": "Reviewed 11 September 2026", "auditNote": "The matching post was read on 11 September 2026. Its exact publication date and status as the first such claim are unverified. The screenshot alone does not identify its author. The company website shows a continuing offering, not proof of service quality." }, { "id": "blogging", "category": "Communication", "year": 2008, "by": "Paul Boutin · reported by CBS MoneyWatch", "title": "Is Twitter Taking Over From Blogging?", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-twitter-taking-over-from-blogging/", "lifeTitle": "WordPress News", "lifeUrl": "https://wordpress.org/news/", "name": "Blogging", "date": "23 Oct 2008", "epitaph": "TOO LONG. STILL BEING READ.", "claim": "CBS reported Paul Boutin’s argument that Twitter and social platforms made blogging obsolete. Its own article challenged that verdict and argued that long and short formats could coexist.", "changed": "Social platforms made short updates and distribution easier. They did not eliminate the need for detailed, searchable writing.", "zombie": "WordPress continues publishing news as dated posts in a maintained archive. Blogging survives as a format even when the fashionable name becomes a newsletter or a publication.", "note": "The date is the contemporary CBS report, not a verified first-ever claim or the exact publication date of Boutin’s original essay. Current WordPress news was reviewed on 10 September 2026. One active archive establishes survival, not market growth.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-14", "lifeDate": "Reviewed 10 September 2026", "auditNote": "The date is the contemporary CBS report, not a verified first-ever claim or the exact publication date of Boutin’s original essay. Current WordPress news was reviewed on 10 September 2026. One active archive establishes survival, not market growth." }, { "id": "books", "category": "Communication", "year": 2010, "by": "Nicholas Negroponte · reported by MG Siegler, TechCrunch", "title": "Nicholas Negroponte: The Physical Book Is Dead In 5 Years", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/06/physical-book-dead/", "lifeTitle": "Penguin Random House · book formats and catalogue", "lifeUrl": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/312473/hollywood-ending-by-john-green/", "name": "Printed books", "date": "6 Aug 2010", "epitaph": "FIVE YEARS TO LIVE. ANOTHER CHAPTER.", "claim": "TechCrunch reported Nicholas Negroponte’s prediction that the physical book would be dead within five years. The article explicitly explains “dead” as losing its dominant role to digital books, not disappearing completely.", "changed": "Digital books made storage and distribution easier. That advantage did not remove physical publishing from the market.", "zombie": "Penguin Random House still lists physical books, including hardcover formats and prices. Paper remains an offered product alongside digital formats. The grave is missing its occupant.", "note": "The report and its qualification were read on 14 September 2026. The publisher catalogue confirms continuing physical formats; it does not by itself establish market share or disprove every part of the dominance prediction.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-14", "lifeDate": "Reviewed 14 September 2026", "auditNote": "The report and its qualification were read on 14 September 2026. The publisher catalogue confirms continuing physical formats; it does not by itself establish market share or disprove every part of the dominance prediction." }, { "id": "mouse", "category": "Technology", "year": 2010, "by": "MG Siegler · TechCrunch", "title": "The Mouse Is Dead. I Just Killed It. Now Can We Move On?", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2010/07/27/the-mouse-is-dead/", "lifeTitle": "Logitech · Mice", "lifeUrl": "https://www.logitech.com/en-us/shop/c/mice", "name": "The computer mouse", "date": "27 Jul 2010", "epitaph": "RIGHT CLICK TO PROVE IT WRONG.", "claim": "MG Siegler used Apple’s Magic Trackpad to announce the end of the mouse era. His article explicitly says mice would not disappear overnight and would remain useful for precision work and gaming.", "changed": "Touchscreens and trackpads expanded the ways people use computers. A shift in device mix is not the extinction of a pointing device.", "zombie": "Logitech still offers a range of wired, wireless and ergonomic mice with prices and product pages. You can even use a right-button drag to move through this cemetery.", "note": "The original article and current Logitech catalogue were read on 14 September 2026. This is one documented 2010 claim, not a proven first. Product availability demonstrates survival, not future dominance.", "extra": [], "rechecked": "2026-09-14", "lifeDate": "Reviewed 14 September 2026", "auditNote": "The original article and current Logitech catalogue were read on 14 September 2026. This is one documented 2010 claim, not a proven first. Product availability demonstrates survival, not future dominance." } ]