EntertainmentWallpaper.com: In 2004, a website called EntertainmentWallpaper.com brought joy and creativity to countless fans of movies, music, television, and celebrities. EntertainmentWallpaper.com was a haven for thousands, providing high-quality wallpapers that allowed fans to express their passions and showcase their favorite figures and franchises in stunning detail.

• What happened? Sadly, between the 2010s and 2020s, this beloved site disappeared from the web, taking with it a cherished collection of visual artistry.

FindThatSong: FindThatSong is a music identification service primarily focused on helping users discover songs from TV shows, movies, games and TV commercials from the 2000s. It functions as a searchable database where you can look up specific scenes, media titles or even broadcasts to find the exact soundtrack and background music featured FindThatSong.

• What happened? It was still up in September 2017, but by a month later that same year it was gone. FindThatSong ceasing its operation of its website, account was suspended, even though there was no official statement from FindThatSong and no word from FindThatSong either. As of 2019, it appears to be taken offline. Also as of 2026, if you go to https://findthatsong.net, the site barely reached and it says:

1. This site can’t be reached

   Check if there is a typo in findthatsong.net.

   If spelling is correct, try running Windows Network Diagnostics.
   DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

Ark: Ark is a personal search engine that uses filters such as hometown, current city, high school, college, gender, relationship status, employee, and interests, to search for new people, old classmates, old friends or acquaintances, and new business contacts. Features include managing users' inboxes from their mobile devices, and syncing data from their Yahoo, AOL, Gmail or Google Apps email accounts, while also finding information about whom they are communicating with.

• The service aggregates "ghost profiles" from social media outlets such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Angel list.
• The company was founded by Patrick Riley and Yiming Liu in March 2012. Prior to founding Ark, the team worked at Google, AOL, Symantec, Lithium and Yahoo! Research. Ark is based in San Francisco, California.
• Ark was part of the Winter 2012 Y Combinator class. The company was one of TechCrunch Disrupt NYC's 2012 Battlefield Finalists.

1. What happened?: Launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in May 2012, Ark sought to map the "social graph" to help users find, for example, "friends who live in New York and are single". It was seen as a competitor to Facebook's own, then-unreleased Graph Search.
2. Ark’s initial success was built on accessing Facebook’s user data. However, Facebook eventually restricted access to its data, particularly friend data, which severely limited Ark's ability to operate as a comprehensive people search engine.
3. Following these restrictions, the company shifted its focus. By September 2013, Ark launched a new product described as a "Rapportive-meets-Mailbox" app, which used social data to provide context about people in your inbox.
4. The results: The company aimed to be a "neutral" alternative to Google and Facebook for personal search. Following the pivot, the company did not reach widespread mainstream adoption, and the original, independent Ark people search engine, as it existed in 2012, ceased to function in its original capacity.
5. After initially gaining traction and raising a $4.2 million seed round, the company underwent significant shifts due to changes in data access policies by major social networks.

Ark TV: Back in the 2000s, Ark TV was an indispensable resource for television enthusiasts who wished to relive and revisit televised moments that defined an era. Ark TV, also known as livedash.ark.com or tv.ark.com, provided users with the unique ability to view screenshots and transcripts of TV airings across various channels from the 2000s and 2010s, notably during 2009 to 2015. This platform was a vital archive for those who appreciated the evolution of television content, allowing people to reflect on significant TV moments, analyze media history, and enjoy a sense of nostalgia. As a passionate community of viewers, we cherished the repository of information it offered, connecting us with our memories and assisting in academic and fan-based research.

• Things go dark: In 2017, however, this beloved archive became inaccessible, and by 2018, it went completely dark. Even though it went offline in March 2017, meaning Ark TV was to prepare for a "brand new website" that was intended to launch "later in 2017" but it failed to return and remained offline for the rest of the decade. There is no official statement or a direct successor to the original Ark TV since it unknown that Ark TV went offline. However, some of the content may be accessible through Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, though functionality may be limited.
• The impact: The loss of Ark TV means a loss of cultural heritage. It's not just a database; it is a testament to the technological advancements and societal shifts as mirrored in our TV narratives. For many, especially those interested in media studies or TV history, Ark TV was a treasure trove of knowledge and entertainment that facilitated innovative thinking and learning opportunities. We believe that bringing back Ark TV with content vital for preserving this legacy.

Angelfire: Angelfire was an Internet service that offered website services. It is owned by Lycos, which also owns Tripod.com. Angelfire operated separately from Tripod.com and included features such as blog building and a photo gallery builder.

• The History: Angelfire was founded in 1996 and was originally a combination website building and medical transcription service. Eventually, the site dropped the transcription service and focused solely on website hosting, offering only paid memberships. The site was bought by Mountain View, California–based WhoWhere on October 20, 1997, which, in turn, was subsequently purchased by the search engine company Lycos on August 11, 1998, for US$133 million.
• What Happened?: On March 6, 2026, Lycos announced that their services, specifically Angelfire and Tripod, were experiencing temporary outages in a note on their frontpage. Later that day, the message was updated to say "To our users of Angelfire and Tripod. We apologize for the service interruptions. Unfortunately we will be shutting down in the next 30 days. Please move your hosting to another host as soon as possible. The message was removed from the homepage shortly after, without further official statement from the company. On April 3, 2026, the message reappeared once more, still without further official statement from Lycos.

Tripod.com was a web hosting service owned by Lycos. Originally aiming its services to college students and young adults, it was one of several sites trying to build online communities during the 1990s. As such, Tripod formed part of the first wave of user-generated content. Free webpages are no longer available and have been replaced by paid services

• Services: Tripod offered web hosting with two paid plans, "personal" and "professional", which differ in features and storage space, but are both powered by the web authoring system "Lycos Publish". This tool has completely replaced the former offering of more general web hosting and removed free plans altogether. Tripod offered free and paid web hosting services, including 20 megabytes of storage space and the ability to run Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts in Perl. In addition to basic hosting, Tripod also offered a blogging tool, a photo album manager, and the Trellix site builder for WYSIWYG page editing. Tripod's for-pay services included additional disk space, a shopping cart, domain names, web and POP/IMAP email.
• The History of Tripod.com: Tripod originated in 1992 with two Williams College classmates, Bo Peabody and Brett Hershey, along with Dick Sabot, an economics professor at the school. The company was headquartered in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with Peabody as CEO. Although it would eventually focus on the Internet, Tripod also published a magazine, Tools for Life, that was distributed with textbooks, and offered a discount card for students.
• Website launch: The domain name Tripod.com was created on September 29, 1994 and the site officially launched in 1995 after operating in "sneak-preview mode" for a period. Billed as a "hip Web site and pay service for and by college students", it offered how-to advice on practical issues that might concern young people when first living away from home. It planned to charge a minimal fee and make money primarily on commissions from partners who would sell products on the site. Other services available included résumé writing features and a simple home page builder. Although the feature was an afterthought originally, Tripod soon became known as a place where people could create free web pages, competing with the likes of GeoCities and Angelfire. Criticizing AOL, the existing leader in this space, for its "walled-garden" approach, Peabody described the company's aims: "Our idea is to build a community through user-created and user-based content."  A reviewer in The Washington Post recommended Tripod over GeoCities for giving users an easier URL to remember, and because GeoCities sites had a tendency to crash computers.
• Investment and buyout: After receiving an initial investment of US$4 million in venture capital, led by New Enterprises Associates, in May 1997 Tripod took an additional round of investment totaling US$10 million. By this time the company had grown to 40 employees and was hoping to reach profitability by the 1st quarter of 1998. The second group of investors included Interpublic, which paid US$2.5 million for a stake in Tripod estimated at 10 percent, thus implying a valuation of US$25 million for the company overall. On February 3, 1998, Lycos announced they had acquired Tripod for a reported US$58 million in stock. Lycos also ended up owning Tripod's former competitor Angelfire, picked up as part of the acquisition of WhoWhere. The two properties were run concurrently, with Tripod continuing to focus on its college-age audience while Angelfire tended to attract high school users. In early 2001, Tripod reached six million registered users (up from nearly one million at the time it was acquired) and was expanding at an estimated 250,000 new sites per month. However, generating profits remained difficult, with an analyst opining that they needed better user profiling so the sites could generate the results expected by advertisers. They also had the challenge of not alienating users while trying to make money. By the end of the year, Tripod and Angelfire also introduced account options allowing users to pay in order to keep their sites ad-free. GeoCities, now acquired by Yahoo!, would follow suit not long afterward. In 2009, Tripod removed the option to use its services for free. After this, new users were required to pay for it.
• Closure: On March 6, 2026, Lycos announced that their services, namely Tripod as well as Angelfire, were experiencing temporary outages in a note on their frontpage. Later that day, the message was updated to say "To our users of Angelfire and Tripod. We apologize for the service interruptions. Unfortunately we will be shutting down in the next 30 days. Please move your hosting to another host as soon as possible." The message was removed from the homepage shortly after, without further official statement from the company. On April 3rd of that same year, the message reappeared once more, still without further official statement from Lycos. Tripod ceased all operations on April 24th of the same year.

People were disappointing that people and fans want Marketecture Media, Inc. to bring back iconic websites from the dead.

• EntertainmentWallpaper.com will not only be a new and improved website but also a new and improved community for pop culture fans.
• FindThatSong will be a new and improved music identification service, primarily focused on helping users discover songs from TV shows, movies, games and commercials, particularly from the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s.
• The revived Ark will have improved features, more filters to search for new people, old classmates, old friends or acquaintances, contacts, more managing users' inboxes and more syncing data, as well as more profiles. While Ark TV however, will be a new and improved website focused on transcripts of American TV airings and added a companion website called Ark TV Rewind which also focused on transcripts of American TV airings throughout 2009-2015.

1.  Ark and Ark TV or Livedash should not be confused with either TVARK, an online archival website of images, sound and video clips illustrating British TV presentation history, ARK TV which is a Christian TV channel, the SYFY TV show titled The Ark or the survival game franchise titled Ark.

• Angelfire and Tripod will have various new and improvements as well as the return of free webpages and paid services for Tripod while Angefire has past archives and new features, as well as the return of blog building and photo gallery builder

1. Both of which will be a collaboration between Lycos and Marketecture Media, Inc.

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