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Work · August 1, 2012

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Tiny weekend project from scraped Wikipedia data: whodiedhere.com

Tiny weekend project from scraped Wikipedia data: whodiedhere.com launched on August 1, 2012 with 6 votes, #128 of 411 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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