19 Category · Internet Classics
The web's old gods — sites that should not still exist.
The directory · 14 entries
Brewster Kahle's 1996 nonprofit digital library. The Wayback Machine archives 800+ billion web pages. Without it, much of the early internet would simply be gone.
A memorial. A document. A warning. Every thing about the internet before someone fixed it.
Brad made a homepage in 1997. Brad is very proud of it. The animated GIFs are still going.
San Francisco State University, online since 1994. The oldest continuously-running webcam on the internet.
Animated hamsters dancing to a sped-up Roger Miller sample. Online since 1998. Possibly the first truly fun website.
Alex Tew's 2005 student-loan-funding pixel grid. Bought all million pixels at $1 each. Still online, still pixelated, still a snapshot of mid-2000s web culture.
Single-page Flash voice loop from 1999, ported to HTML5 so it still plays. "The infinite is possible at Zombo.com." Proto-weird-web canon.
"Purveyors of fine freeware since 1972, on the net since 1991." Jef Poskanzer's personal freeware distribution site, still running unchanged.