The Graveyard of Technology You Are Still Using

But some of you are still running your business on things that belong in this graveyard. We built a graveyard. An actual interactive graveyard on our website.

Headstones. Epitaphs. An atmosphere so spooky you would think we were selling Halloween costumes.

But no. We are mourning dead technology. Because that is apparently what we do for fun.

Flash Player. Died 2020. Epitaph: 'It had a good run.

And then it had a lot of security vulnerabilities.' Internet Explorer 6. Died 2014 officially, still haunting IT departments to this day. Dreamweaver.

jQuery. ColdFusion. Google Plus.

They are all in there. But here is the thing. It is not just nostalgia.

Some of you are literally running your business on technology that has a headstone in our graveyard. Your website is built on a platform that stopped receiving updates three years ago. Your CRM is held together with duct tape and hope.

Your hosting provider's idea of modern infrastructure is a server in someone's cupboard. And I know why you have not changed it. Because it still works.

Sort of. For now. Like a car with 200,000 miles on the clock.

It is running, but you do not want to hear what the mechanic has to say. There is also a hidden easter egg in the graveyard. A headstone for 'Your Current Tech Stack.' If you find it, it links to our technology overview page.

Because we are subtle like that. Our developer Matthew gets genuinely emotional about dead technology. He has opinions about FTP deployment that I cannot share on camera.

The graveyard was his idea. We just made it look atmospheric. Go visit the graveyard.

Search for your stack. If it is buried there, it might be time we talked about a resurrection. Or at least a replacement.