21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains

A basement-born “Akshually!” just dug up 21,864 lost Yugoslav websites, and the comments are wild. A blogger channeled full-on internet archaeologist energy—complete with the meme-worthy line “MOM, fire up the router!”—to scrape old lists on a long-gone “www.yu” site and the Wayback Machine, then dropped a giant CSV of .yu domains. Cue chaos.

The loudest chorus: ICANN nuked .yu because the country dissolved—and people are furious. One top comment says killing country domains “only serves to break the internet,” echoing a bigger fear that online history gets tossed when the politics change. Others point out the plot twist: .su (Soviet Union) still lives—you can buy it today—so why did .yu have to die? The thread veers from domain drama to real-world grief, with heartfelt posts calling Yugoslavia’s fall “a horrible tragedy,” blaming nationalism and the loss of shared culture.

Meanwhile, the nerds brought the jokes. One user asked if you could just “ask the internet” for every domain; the edit: you can’t, for security reasons—“Guess that idea won’t fly lol.” And everyone’s calling the blogger the Indiana Jones of Dead Domains, swapping whip for wget. It’s half digital forensics, half Balkan history lesson, and 100% comment-section heat.