“Plenty of wild wired promises are already being made for all the infant media. What we need is a somber, thoughtful, thorough, hype-free, even lugubrious book that honors the dead and resuscitates the spiritual ancestors of today's mediated frenzy. A book to give its readership a deeper, paleontological perspective right in the dizzy midst of the digital revolution. We need a book about the failures of media, the collapses of media, the supercessions of media, the strangulations of media, a book detailing all the freakish and hideous media mistakes that we should know enough now not to repeat, a book about media that have died on the barbed wire of technological advance, media that didn't make it, martyred media, dead media. THE HANDBOOK OF DEAD MEDIA. A naturalist's field guide for the communications paleontologist.”

An attempt to catalogue many past forms of media so future generations might remember them. http://www.deadmedia.org/

• http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/index-cat.html
• https://www.conceptlab.com/deadmedia/
• http://web.archive.org/web/20071012231713/www.deadmedia.org/
• http://web.archive.org/web/20080703070450/www.deadmedia.org/notes/index-numeric.html