Did anyone else notice that the classical Jump the Shark website is no more!? Actually, the domain still exists, along with some former outline of its categorical structure including such titles as "A Very Special" or "They Did It". But the site as you may fondly recall from the late 90s is otherwise - gone!
Jump the Shark 2010. What is this crap?
The current Wiki grabshot explains that original site creator Jon Hein sold the website to TV Guide in 2006 for one to a couple mil (way to go Jon!). But, then, following TV Guide's own effective dissolution, the site was converted into a blazeh TV gossip forum with some loose association to the aforementioned. Well done and, as interesting to some as that sort of thing may be, it sure ain't the snarky in-purpose Jump the Shark pop resource that so artfully drew a hysterical frame around 2 or 3 decades of bad television.
Folks, I mean it...the database itself isn't even there. Today click on, for example, the "Puberty" category, and you get some single-entry blog about the TV show "Everybody Hates Chris".
Go figure. Why would anyone even want the site without its database of hundreds of thousands of user commentaries? You would think, aside from the site's nomenclature addition of "jumping the shark" to American lingo (and hence the domain itself), the database would be the site's sole other value point.
