Philadelphia / Sept 24-26, 2026 / First gathering
Your handle becomes a face. The tabs close. The people who knew the same strange corner of the web end up in the same room.
Get the venue and first ticket release.
A link was an introduction.
Buttons were tiny declarations of taste. Put yours in our ring, then meet the person behind the page when the ring gathers IRL.
Internet culture, found offline.
Everything became a feed.
Fan sites, forums, signatures, blogs, playlists, guestbooks, half-finished experiments. You followed a link because someone you trusted left it there, then found a person you did not know you needed.
Your handle was a place.
Descarded is for the people who found their language through a screen and still wanted somewhere physical to use it. No follower count at the door. Meet the person behind the name.
A webring with a meeting place.
Submit your corner. We review it, add its button to the Descarded index, and invite the people behind the pages into the same Philadelphia room.
A site, page, archive, project, or obsession with your fingerprints on it.
Every submission is reviewed, then placed in the public Descarded ring.
Handles become people. Online friends finally share a physical room.
Not a follower count. A link you built, a corner with your taste in it, and something for the next person to follow.
Every button is a person saying: this mattered enough to make a page.
Send the URL and button. We review every corner before it joins the ring.
The browser closes here.
The sound and visuals matter. The real point is recognition: the moment a niche reference gets answered by somebody standing next to you.
01The track from a dead link is suddenly loud enough to feel.
02A username becomes the person standing next to you.
03The thing you thought was only yours gets answered across the room.
First gathering
The venue and first ticket release go to the list before they go anywhere else.
Make the thing only you would make.
DJs, performers, visual artists, photographers, designers, installation artists, digital makers, archivists, and work that does not fit cleanly into a category.
First ticket release