Dead Letters Office

I've been musing for a while (just shows my mental state) about all those little lost websites out there in cyber space. The little ones people do when they get there first net connection using their ISP's free webspace or some god awful thing like angel fire. The ones with a couple of photos of dogs and a holiday snap from Eurodisney. There must be millions. People do them, update them for an hour and then get bored and never look at them again. I have a couple that I've lost the address to, and the password.
All have a URL to the tune of

http:\\www.overpricedfirstisp\webspace\~lowerpricerate\johnandmarythompson\our%20website\eurodisney.htm

What happens to them? Websites that exist forever because no one remembers they exist. Ticking over during billions of clock cycles in a lonely internet hell. Covered by flashing gifs, seventy different fonts and a couple of 3mb photos. Little snapshots of peoples lives created with their first Compaq PC bought from Shop Electric and Front Page Express.
How much server space do they consume? Could we harness it for evil means?
I am sure this blog will go the way of the rest, when we get bored or get jobs or die. It will float for years on blogspot, never being updated or looked at until Google discover it and finally delete.
Or will they? In the future will there be Web archeologists who dig for months online looking for a 1995 family's first HotMeTaL site, carbon dating the java script to get an overview of society during the last decade of the 20th century. Performing complicated Undeletes on an old server farm in Wigan that time team have uncovered.

Incidentally the Way Back Machine already does this, its funny to see Microsoft's first web site or the BBC's. I bet you remember when it looked like that. It's a pity it doesn't go back further than 1996. I remember using mosaic browser at university before Microsoft had their own domain name. But then again, I'm very sad.