About the archive

Apple Graveyard is a cinematic archive — a place to remember the products, services, and features Apple has deprecated, discontinued, or quietly removed from your life over five decades.

Inspired by killedbyapple.theden.sh, this version is a reimagined experiment: rather than hand-curating every entry, the dataset was generated by a research agent — an LLM with web search — and frozen into a JSON file that ships with the site.

How it was built

A Python script calls a web-grounded model with a strict JSON schema. The model selects entries, looks up real launch and end-of-life dates, writes a short obituary, and cites a verifiable source. The output lands in src/data/graveyard.json. Hero imagery for select entries is generated separately with the same soft-lit, dark-stone treatment to keep the grid uniform.

The site is static and instant — no backend, no per-request AI cost. To grow the archive, the script is re-run with a higher entry target. To keep it fresh, the same script can be wired to a scheduled job later.

Caveat

Dates and details are AI-generated and best-effort. Found something wrong? That's part of the project — a future iteration could add a "report a correction" form and persist edits to a database.