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When a local forum goes dark, most of us shrug. A growing group of UK archivists, writers and ex-moderators are writing obituaries instead. We talk to them about dead fan sites, vanished shops and what a digital eulogy is really for.
Across the UK, cafés, bars and supper clubs are hiding their best dishes behind passphrases, Discord drops and QR-code riddles. We spoke to the owners and the customers who bother to crack the clues — and asked whether secret menus are a playful swipe at review-bombing culture or just a very British way of making regulars feel smug.
Forget the Cloud and forget the National Archive. The most honest record of how we actually lived through the 2020s is sitting in a WhatsApp thread with 47 unread messages and a photo of someone's Nan's kitchen. We spoke to the people who keep it that way — and the ones who wish they hadn't been screenshotted.
Across Bristol, Glasgow and Manchester, a new generation is buying, fixing and swapping VHS tapes and cassettes. We meet the under-30s turning obsolete formats into a scene — and a surprisingly stubborn market.