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.
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.
Checkers online, free with no signup. Play the computer at three levels or a friend on one screen, then try draughts variants and read the rules.