Websites from pre-"internet 2.0" still online for users to experience, offering a slice of the retro internet.
The 1996 Dole/Kemp presidential campaign, linking also to the Clinton/Gore 1996 campaign archive.
This website is the preserved official online presence for the Clinton/Gore 1996 presidential campaign, offering historical information about their platform, candidates, and campaign activities.
This website, hosted on Tripod, serves as a 'links page' dedicated to the Star Trek franchise and retro throwback.
The official website for Sir Sean Connery, providing information about the life and career of the legendary actor in a well preserved web archive.
This website is a classic internet phenomenon, known for its repetitive audio loop and minimalist design that proclaims "You can do anything at Zombocom." It serves as a humorous, self-referential, and somewhat nonsensical relic of early web culture.
An online gaming publication that is still preserved from 1997
The Old Net is a website that allows users to experience or revisit the early internet by accessing archived web content from specific years (1994-2010). It also provides resources and simulators related to retro computing.
A retro designed portfolio for Yuji Ohimoto from 2003, highly stylized for it's time.
A nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 offering free public access to collections of digitized web pages, software, books, audio, and video—committed to “universal access to all knowledge”. A pillar of the internet.
A loose collective of archivists and developers dedicated since 2009 to rescuing at-risk web content before it vanishes
An online exhibition showcasing thousands of screenshots of classic websites, apps, and software from the 1990s through the mid-2000s
A browser-emulation service (by Rhizome/Webrecorder) that lets you surf archived web pages using authentic legacy browsers like Mosaic and Netscape
An art-and-technology nonprofit that archives net art, runs the Webrecorder project, and preserves online cultural heritage .
The canonical glossary of hacker slang and in-jokes, documenting ARPANET culture and early Internet folklore .
A collaborative community of user-written entries covering technology history, programming lore, and geek-culture essays .
Justin Hall’s 1994 “Links from the Underground” web diary, widely regarded as the very first personal blog
David Mirsky’s acid-tongued, thrice-weekly showcase (1995–1996) of the Web’s worst pages, complete with scathing one-line reviews .
The full original promotional site for the 1996 film Space Jam, with spinning GIFs, blinking stars, and mid-’90s design intact 
A crowdsourced mirror of GeoCities neighborhoods, rescuing thousands of personal 1990s homepages from permanent deletion . .
A community-maintained wiki defining the “Webcore” aesthetic (Wild West/Web 1.0 era) and linking to emblematic vintage sites
A modern revival of the Geocities spirit—hosts new and archived “neo-vintage” personal homepages to keep the ethos of early ’90s Web alive
The very first website created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1991, restored as a static replica of the original pages to illustrate the birth of the Web .
Personal lab site “Purveyors of fine freeware since 1972,” online since 1991, hosting tiny web tools, ASCII Earth/Moon maps, and micro-HTTP servers .
Founded in 1996 as a Quake fan-news blog by Stephen Heaslip, still updated with minimalist, factual PC gaming headlines .
Network consulting firm’s site put online in late 1992 and largely unchanged to this day .
Home of the world’s first webcam, streaming a view of the coffee pot in Cambridge since 1993 .
One of the earliest magazine websites (launched October 1994 as HotWired), pioneering web journalism and banner ads, and a staple of internet journalism covering futurism to current events.
World’s oldest continuously operating webcam, capturing San Francisco State University’s courtyard since July 1994, self advertised as The world's oldest webcam.
Stafford Huyler’s pioneering webcomic running since May 1994, archived in its original layout .
Early horror movie review site launched in 1995, preserving genre articles and retro web styling .
Abandonware archive founded in 1998, preserving thousands of Windows and DOS games that would otherwise be lost, the site itself is dilapidated but preserves a by-gone era design
One of the very first commercial Web domains (registered September 18, 1986), this IT-consulting firm’s plain-HTML site remains online in largely its original form .
Registered October 27, 1986, Lauren Weinstein’s “People for Internet Responsibility” advocacy site still displays its original, link-list layout .
Founded April 1987, this one-man networking and systems-architecture consultancy preserves its bare-bones, mid-’90s HTML design .
This consulting firm’s site—one of the first registered in 1989—remains an archaic HTML relic, complete with table-based menus 
Live since August 1994, this personal “Milk” zine site still uses basic frames and animated GIFs in its wry, hand-crafted style .
A vault of psychoactive-substance information (originating 1995), its content-heavy pages and hand-drawn navigation icons retain a decidedly retro feel .
A pioneer in digital-audio education (launched 1993), this “Broadcast and Cinema Audio Engineering” site still sports its original menu-bar frames .
Self-styled “homepage for ninjas” from the late ’90s, the pixel-art header and neon-text menus remain frozen in time .
This early “self-assessment quiz” page still uses table layouts and GIF counters from the ’90s era .
A single-serving “spoon-fork hybrid” site (registered 1995) that retains its playful, minimalist HTML design .
Tim Berners-Lee’s 1991 “subject listing” catalog survives in a bare-bones directory style, with no CSS beyond simple inline fonts 
The first online graffiti-art archive (Sept 1994), featuring scanned pieces and a handcrafted link-list gallery in its original layout .
MIT’s 1994 collection of 441 classical works, presented via a simple frame-based HTML interface with no styling beyond basic lists .
John Walker’s personal site from the early ’90s—home to The Autodesk File and HotBits RNG—in plain, unstyled HTML .
Netscape’s 1994 live fishtank webcam (the web’s second ever camera), still serving static snapshots through its vintage HTML player .
Kenneth Goldsmith’s avant-garde art “shadow library” (1996), navigable through its original, no-frills HTML directory pages
A cynical post-9/11 satirical comic strips by David Rees about political topics, running from 2001 to 2009.
A comedic website that says "Graphic Design is my passion"
online journal showcasing photo essays and visual narratives urban landscapes, cultural observations, and everyday life, with 41 issues, with the last update over a decade ago.
An independent webzine, published weekdays by author Rosecrans Baldwin and Andrew Womack since 1999, that features links and subscription newsletter
An archive of articles and discussions covering various topics within graphic design, including branding, typography, business, and critiques, originally published between August 2002 and April 2009.
Interactive, visual, and sound poetry by Jim Andrews, dating back to 1996.
A compendium of links and images of strange, absurd, bizarre, humorous, surreal, and satiric content from the web's underbelly, updated weeky for more than 25 years.
A defunct, as of 2012 literary blog
library technologist, Jessamyn West's, blog, dating back to 1999 with recommended reading and perspectives as a library media specailist
A once active online community for fans of the science fiction series 'Firefly' created by Joss Whedon,active during the early 2000s.
episode guide for Buffy The Vampire Slayer including synopses, reviews, quotes, music, and images. From 2003-2013.
A comprehensive informational resource providing extensive details on the cinematic and television adaptations of the Dune saga as well as failed attempts at adapting Dune. It surprisingly still receives updates despite it's very early 2000s design.
An archive of the many different winamp skins, with animated displays and even downloads.
A visual assault in the vain of hamsterdance of looping animated gifs of dogs running on background.
Famed parody site of a fundamentalist Baptist church with absurdist moral stances started in 1998 with updates that lasted until 2020.