Vimm's Lair was well-known and linked all around the web for decades just fine. You wanna know what really killed it? The horde of iToddlers, the moment they could run emulators on their shitty overpriced locked down smartphones thanks to the EU twisting Tim Cook's AIDS ridden nutsack into the right frequency, started passing the link to it left and right on TikTok, Facebook and every other modern blight on society to tell people where to find free Nintendo games for their phones.
That's what put way too much heat on Vimm's Lair and that's what led to it's demise. It was no longer less than a million of people globally knowing about it over the years, it was tens of millions of people learning about it in the span of days. Corporations couldn't give half a shit about some schmucks sharing links like that on Internet shitsmears like this forum or some Rentry paste that 0.1% of the global userbase will ever find and access.
tl;dr I hope Steve Jobs boils in the nastiest vat of excrement in the darkest depths of Gehenna for inventing the iPhone.