Wayback Séance: I asked dead websites to tell their own life stories, and made the ghosts cite their sources
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine What I Built GeoCities shut down before I was old enough to use the web. I never saw it alive. All I've seen of it is in screenshots, in other people's nostalgia, and in the Internet Archive, which kept its front page hundreds of times while nobody was looking. So for Día de los Muertos I built a…
For Día de los Muertos, the author created a séance to communicate with deceased websites. Wayback Séance retrieves the history of a vanished website from the Wayback Machine and has a lightweight model recite its life story in four chapters. The ghost's narration must be backed by real archive snapshots; otherwise, it is silenced. The tool provides both a terminal dialogue and an HTML memorial with citations and snapshots.
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