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_why's Estate
An archive gathering everything the vanished programmer-artist why the lucky stiff put online: whimsical writings, comic…
Archive Team
A loose collective of volunteer archivists racing to save websites and datasets before they are shut down or deleted.
BBS: The Documentary
The companion site to Jason Scott's documentary on bulletin board systems, with interviews and history of pre-internet o…
Cheezburger
Home of the LOLcat empire, the network of humor sites that popularized captioned animal photos and helped invent modern…
CSS Zen Garden
A landmark 2003 web design showcase demonstrating how radically different one identical page of HTML can look with diffe…
Damn You Autocorrect
A crowdsourced archive of hilariously disastrous smartphone autocorrect fails submitted by users from across the early s…
Defacto2
An archive preserving 1990s software piracy scene culture, including cracktros, ANSI art, and text files from the BBS un…
Digg
A pioneering social news aggregator from the mid-2000s that helped invent the modern upvote-driven internet content cult…
Discord, or the Death of Lore
Archivist Jason Scott laments communities moving from searchable public forums into closed chat servers, and what vanish…
eBaum's World
A long-running early-2000s humor and video site that was a major hub of viral internet content before the rise of YouTub…
Fanlore
A collaborative wiki documenting the history of fan communities, fanworks, and fandom culture from zines to modern shipp…
FindThatMeme
A meme search engine with more than 17 million memes indexed, for tracking down that image you half remember and finding…
Finger: The 1971 Social Network That Never Died
A look at the Unix finger protocol, arguably the first social network, with no accounts or ads, and how people still use…
FogCam
A live webcam billed as the world's oldest, still serving up its view of the foggy Bay Area from San Francisco State Uni…
Get a Cable Modem... Go to Jail
A 1999 first-person tale of a bizarre run-in with a cable company, told in chapters, that captures the absurdity of earl…
GUI Gallery
An exhaustive illustrated gallery documenting the look and evolution of graphical user interfaces from the 1970s to the…
Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World Yet?
A deadpan single-serving joke site from the collider's 2008 startup era that has answered the same reassuring question,…
History of the Web Timeline
A timeline from The History of the Web tracing key moments in the web's development, from early browsers and standards t…
HN Hall of Fame
A browsable archive of Hacker News links the community keeps rediscovering, with complete submission histories for more…
Homestar Runner
A beloved early-2000s Flash cartoon website starring a cast of absurd characters that helped define an entire era of int…
How Jerry Pournelle Got Kicked Off the ARPANET
A short, funny piece of early internet lore about how a science fiction author managed to get himself banned from the AR…
Humorous RFCs
A curated list of the funniest internet standards documents, from ARPAWOCKY to joke protocols, proving specs do not have…
Internet Coke Machine
The story of the Carnegie Mellon Coke machine that students wired to the early network so anyone could check whether col…
Internet Underground Archives
Archived features from Internet Underground, a 1990s print magazine about online life, with top-ten lists, weird-web pic…
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