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Jodi.org
A landmark piece of 1990s net art by the duo JODI, presenting deliberately chaotic, glitch-styled pages that helped defi…
Keith Lynch's Net Timeline
A huge timeline of internet terms, memes, stories and people, each dated by its first appearance in one man's decades-de…
Lorem Ipsum Generator
The original web home of the ubiquitous placeholder Latin text, generating dummy paragraphs used across the design world…
Museum of the Human Web
An online museum of internet history that walks through the people, protocols, software and odd decisions that built the…
Neopets
A nostalgic virtual pet website from 1999 with its own economy and community that remains one of the internet's most end…
Never Post
Never Post is an independent podcast about and for the internet, with free episodes digging into online culture, odd cor…
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age
A curated tour through the Internet Archive's dump of 1990s Geocities websites, showcasing the earnest, chaotic design o…
Potatoland
Artist Mark Napier's home for classic browser-based net art pieces like Shredder and Riot, pioneering works of interacti…
Raw Thought
The preserved weblog archive of Aaron Swartz, with essays on politics, technology, culture and how to learn, kept online…
Security Standards and Name Changes in the Browser Wars
Tim Dierks recounts why Netscape's SSL became TLS in the late 90s, a short inside story of Microsoft and Netscape standa…
Something Awful
A pioneering comedy forum and website from 1999 whose community spawned foundational internet memes and meme-format cult…
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things
Novelist Catherynne M. Valente looks back on three decades of online communities, from LiveJournal to Twitter, and why e…
Symbolics.com
The first .com domain ever registered (March 15, 1985), now a small museum with an interactive timeline and facts about…
Ten Years in Silicon Alley
Literary Kicks founder Levi Asher recounts his decade as a developer and web pioneer in New York's Silicon Alley, from t…
textfiles.com
Jason Scott's sprawling archive of BBS-era text files, phreaking zines, and early internet ephemera, preserved exactly a…
The $5000 Compression Challenge
The full email record of a famous bet: a challenger offered 5000 dollars to anyone who could compress a random file, and…
The Complete Meme Timeline
A giant chronological timeline of 392 memes from 1996 to 2026, a scrollable history of how internet jokes were born and…
The Emoji Museum
A guided museum of digital expression, from Xerox Star icons and emoticons to ICQ, AIM and MSN smileys and modern Unicod…
The Internet Is Already Over
A literary, darkly funny essay by Sam Kriss on what the internet turned into, mixing memes, theology and cultural critic…
The Internet Used to Be Fun
Rachel Kwon's curated collection of essays and posts about the early fun web, personal websites and how to make the inte…
The Million Dollar Homepage
A surviving piece of internet history: a single page of a million pixels sold as advertising in 2005 that made its creat…
The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol
The story of how a small team at the University of Minnesota built Gopher, briefly ruled the early internet, and then lo…
The Story of How RSS Beat Microsoft
The history of Microsoft's ICE syndication format and how open, simple RSS beat it, with lessons on why open formats lik…
The Virtual Community
Howard Rheingold's 1993 book The Virtual Community, free to read online: a firsthand account of the WELL and early onlin…
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