Friendster is now a video gaming service, MySpace is music streaming. It's not a stretch to imagine a day when all our words and images hosted on these services are removed as the companies collapse or morph. Who know what Instagram or Twitter or Facebook will be like in 7 years, or in 15 years. Seven years ago, Webshots was useful and important. While Webshots may not exactly be the most relevant service to many of us, the fact that it's wiping out so much user data is telling to what the future may hold. They're the thing people worry about the most: The family photo album is the thing you grab when you run out of your burning house.

Losing phone contacts, term papers, business presentations, and all our other digital debris is plenty annoying, but they don't have the same impact as losing photos. Years of people’s photos - baby pictures, college parties - are going to disappear because of corporate restructuring. This photo for desktop wallpaper is from our weekly collection is available now.

This is what link rot looks like, and with personal photos, it’s a little more frustrating than a Geocities fan page disappearing. Sign Up or Sign In to favorite these photos.

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