Hi, everyone: On behalf of my co-editor, Jessa Lingel, I wanted to share the exciting news that our double special issue on dead-and-dying platforms is now completed and available online. Full details are below. We owe a debt to many people on this listserv, who kindly offered their support in different ways along the way. We began this effort in 2020 <https://twitter.com/muira_mccammon/status/1262510666533023744> and benefited greatly as well from the editorial guidance of Niels Brügger, Ian Milligan, and others belonging to the editorial board at *Internet Histories*. We hope the contents inspire others, who are thinking and writing about endings, technological failure, infrastructural frailty, and the ethics of exhuming the web that was. All my best, Muira *Muira McCammon* *Ph.D. candidate, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania * *M.L., University of Pennsylvania Law School (2020)* *Twitter: @muira_mccammon* *** The journal Internet Histories Volume 6 Issue 1-2 has been completed and is available online. This is a special double issue "Dead and Dying Platforms" by guest editors Muira McCammon & Jessa Lingel. Two articles are Open Access, and one is Free Access for a limited time. The double issue may be accessed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/6/1-2 < https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/6/1-2> Contents: Editorial Situating dead-and-dying platforms: technological failure, infrastructural precarity, and digital decline Muira McCammon & Jessa Lingel Interview Dead-and-dying platforms: a roundtable Muira McCammon, Diami Virgilio, Cody Ogden, Kevin Ackermann, Ethan Zuckerman, Robert Gehl, Saima Akhtar, Sultan Al-Azri, Catherine Knight Steele, Amber M. Hamilton, Anat Ben-David, Sarah Wasserman, Sara Namusoga-Kaale & Joy Lisi Rankin Articles Why does a platform die? Diagnosing platform death at Friendster’s end Frances Corry “Tom had us all doing front-end web development”: a nostalgic (re)imagining of Myspace | Open Access Kate M. Miltner & Ysabel Gerrard The four deaths of Couchsurfing and the changing ecology of the web Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając & Attila Márton Porn bans, purges, and rebirths: the biopolitics of platform death in queer fandoms Diana Floegel “Everything on the internet can be saved”: Archive Team, Tumblr and the cultural significance of web archiving | Open Access Jessica Ogden Forgotten passwords and Long-Gone exes: the life and death of Renren Lianrui Jia “They’re describing Yelp in 1992!”: revisiting the Blacksburg Electronic Village Tamara Kneese The rise and fall of MapQuest Rowan Wilken “Yakety yak: Don’t talk back”: An autopsy of anonymity gone awry Kathryn Montalbano r/WatchRedditDie and the politics of reddit’s bans and quarantines Julia R. DeCook A ‘lifetime of indentured servitude:’ rights, labor, and gender anxieties in a dead men’s rights newsgroup Alexis de Coning The death of GeoCities: seeking destruction and platform eulogies in Web archives Katie Mackinnon | Free Access Book Reviews Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking, and Sorting of the Past by Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, Bristol University Press, Bristol, 2021. Hardcover, pp. 116, ISBN: 978-1-5292-1815-2 Kira Allmann Wikipedia @ 20, stories of an incomplete revolution, edited by joseph reagle and jackie koerner, the MIT press (2020), cambridge, Massachusetts; london, England, U.S. $27.95 Helen Hockx-Yu