Superbad.com

A strange click-fest from 1997 that was pioneering in its design and completely non-commercial intent as a sort of art installation or… something.

Rei's Home Page

Here is a personal website hosted on MITs servers for Rei, or Eri Izawa, that has been up since 1994. On it is a ton of links pertaining to Rei's interests; Anime/Manga, Art, birds (hey @jacetchan), akido, spirituality, and random thoughts. There is also an HTML game made by Rei

The History of the Web Part I: the First 20 Years

A great lecture from Professor Dame Wendy Hall given December 11, 2011 on the history of the Web and the first 20 years of it's development. I know the lecture is old at this point, but the information presented is still historically accurate. Gives a deep understanding as to the

World Wide Web Ruin

This site explores the Old Web as an ancient ruins. The link provided is more like an explanation landing page of this concept along with some stats about the Web. There is a link to experience the Modern Web in a somewhat funny but realistic interpretation. The real gold here

I'll Quit My Job and Buy a Farm - Alin Panaitiu

A few days ago, I shared this post with reference to a blog post written as A Love Letter To The Personal Website. Today, I wanted to share a blog post I came across I think embodies the same spirit, and why it's meaningful to me. I'll give some background about why I would quali

The Psychophysics Psyber Lab

A great example of an old school academic research site. The subject itself is about how organisms use their senses to detect and interpret events in the environment, focusing on function and not so much biological structure. It's the modeling of how perception works. According t

Paperkraft - Free Papercraft, Paper Model, & Papertoy

A blog that ran from 2006 to 2015. Inside are posts and pictures of incredible papercraft creations. It covers the whole gamut of nerd fandoms. If you like Pokémon fan art and creations, you'll love this. There's something for everyone here! Seriously though, there are some prett

SignWriting.org -- A Writing System for Sign Langauages

SignWriting, a writing system created by Valerie Sutton that allows sign languages to be written, read, typed, archived, and published just like spoken languages. Launched with its first post in September 1996 and still looking closely to what it probably looked like in 1996, the

Lenna -- The Controverial Centerfold Image Used To Test Compression Algorithms

This site tells the story of the infamous Lenna image. The photo, originally published in the November 1972 issue of Playboy magazine, was used by researchers to test image compression algorithms. A fun fact, this was also the most sold issue of Playboy ever with 7,161,561 copies

r33b.net - ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

Here's a website that's been around since about 2003. It's one of those useless but fun websites that was just someone's passion project. There is a fun ASCII art Easter egg if you look at the source code for this site. Another fun fact is that this site was launched and has been

Welcome to Universal Paperclips -- Simple Paperclip Browser Game

Herre is a fun little browser game where you manufacture and sell paperclips.

escape.com -- Providing Online Services Since 1987 (Until 2002)

Escape.com was an online service started in 1987. It's origins started a year earlier as a BBS running on a Commadore 64 and 1200-baud modem. In 1994 it became an ISP and expanded quickly into the Millennium. Escape was one of the first ISPs, predating most commercial providers.

Bluedwarf.top: Retro Forum with Some Old Web Enthusiasts

The admin has gone "nuclear" against AI crawler bots so there is a captcha to get in to the site... I'm hoping the admin can find some other better way to handle the spam than this measure if you guys have suggestions for the site

You Can Do Anything At Zombo.com

Shadow Island Games -- pbm.com

I had never heard of PBM (play-by-mail) or PBEM (play-by-email) games before finding this site. It was apparently sort of a big thing. You would send in you moves via an email and then it would email you the results of your move in the game. There were lots of games, but Olympia:

Worlds first website

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN.

The Digital Homestead of Thomas E Havorford

Here is a personal website that I believe is newer but has that old web aesthetic. Right off that bat, you are greeted with a flying thru space background, an Energy Star logo, and a giant .gif of Clippy. There are some writings on personal website creation, math, and Linux. Some

I've tried to cram some nostalgia in my personal site

I grew up in the early 90's internet, and I wanted my personal website to have a lot of those little touches where I could. Winamp, Flash, IRC, eSheep, etc. Thanks for checking it out!

Last updated 8 years ago, this website has been a goldmine for the X-Files TV series fans, with detailed descriptions and dialogues for each episode. Amazing job ❌📂🛸

The Creative Works of Andy Weir

Before he was famous for The Martian, Andy Weir made video games and web comics. In August of 2009 he published The Egg to the site. You can find this in the Creative Writings section, translated into over 30+ languages. First online: ~2000 Last content update: August 15, 2

Arts & Letters Daily - flying the flag of the old web experience

AL daily has been around for years - since 1998 according to their header, so that’s at least 25 years. I don’t think the site or the format has changed at all in that time. Each day, a link to three long form pieces of quality writing: an “article of note”, a book review,

A Love Letter To The Personal Website

Congrats to us for passing 200 members!!! The first few days since we opened for the public beta of Digg has gotten me asking myself what used to be so fun about the internet? What am I experiencing now in Digg that I haven’t in for so long? That reminded me of this author’

Web Shufflr

Web shufflr is a collection of vintage and modern websites sorted into topics that you can browse randomly. Thanks to @AlacrityFitzhugh for turning me onto this site.