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Internet History Roulette
A spinning wheel of web nostalgia that lands you on random archived 1990s and 2000s sites with pop-up trivia, built as a…
25 Years of Wikipedia
A celebration of Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, collecting milestones, stories and reflections on how a volunteer-written…
2Advanced Studios Prophecy
The 2004 Prophecy-era Flash website of 2Advanced Studios, restored to run in modern browsers through Ruffle, a time caps…
A Story of GameLayers, Inc.
Justin Hall's candid, richly illustrated memoir of GameLayers, the startup that turned the whole web into a multiplayer…
A Time Before Algorithms Took Over the 90's Web
A nostalgic essay on the chaotic, personal 90s web of handmade homepages and creative oddities, and how far it feels fro…
April Fools' Day on the Web
An archive of every April Fools' Day joke posted by websites and companies since 2004, organized by year with screenshot…
April Fools' Day on the Web
A yearly archive of the jokes and pranks that websites and brands published on April 1, with screenshots, top-rated pick…
Broksonic
The surviving website of Broksonic, a budget electronics brand once sold at Walmart, left online as a time capsule of th…
Cameron's World
A web collage assembled from archived GeoCities pages, celebrating the chaotic visual aesthetic of the early personal we…
Carbon Dating The Web
A university research tool that estimates the birth date of any web page by checking archives, backlinks and social ment…
CompuServe
The still-running CompuServe homepage, a news portal laid out in boxed link lists and small banners that look like an ea…
Emotion Eric
An affectionate interview catching up with Emotion Eric, the kid whose website of exaggerated facial expressions became…
Evolution of Webdesign
Slide through web design from 1991 to 2020 as the same page is rebuilt in the style of each era, from plain grey HTML to…
Ghost Sites of the Web: Kozmo.com
Steve Baldwin's long-running Ghost Sites column digs into a trove of leftover Kozmo.com memorabilia, a surreal echo of t…
GifCities
The Internet Archive's search engine for animated GIFs harvested from GeoCities, a glittering portal back to the 1990s w…
Goodbye.Domains
A graveyard for expired domain names, where owners write short obituaries for personal sites and projects they let lapse…
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…
i move u
A restored 2002 interactive web piece from Yugen Lab where you pick a character and a world and travel through it by key…
iconmap.io
A gigantic zoomable map of over 425,000 website favicons grouped by color, with search, a random jump button and a write…
info.cern.ch
The restored home of the very first website, with the original 1992 pages, a line-mode browser simulator, and the story…
Information Mesh
An interactive timeline site marking 30 years of the World Wide Web, tracing social, technical, cultural, and legal mile…
Internet 1996 World Exposition
A preserved worlds fair for the information age from 1996, with pavilions, exhibits and a book about the event, a time c…
iSmile
A retro-web homage with a history of web design across four decades, an ASCII world, ASCII mons, a virtual pet, a Digi-Z…
Justin's Links from the Underground (1996 Intro)
Justin Hall's summer 1996 introduction to his pioneering personal web diary, reflecting on sharing your mind online in t…
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