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Internet Archeology Directory

Websites from pre-"internet 2.0" still online for users to experience
47 sites found
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A retro designed portfolio for Yuji Ohimoto from 2003, highly stylized for it's time.
ACME Laboratories
Personal lab site “Purveyors of fine freeware since 1972,” online since 1991, hosting tiny web tools, ASCII Earth/Moon maps, and micro-HTTP servers .
Archive Team
A loose collective of archivists and developers dedicated since 2009 to rescuing at-risk web content before it vanishes(cross-category)
Art Crimes
The first online graffiti-art archive (Sept 1994), featuring scanned pieces and a handcrafted link-list gallery in its original layout .
BCAE1 Home Page
A pioneer in digital-audio education (launched 1993), this “Broadcast and Cinema Audio Engineering” site still sports its original menu-bar frames .
Blue’s News
Founded in 1996 as a Quake fan-news blog by Stephen Heaslip, still updated with minimalist, factual PC gaming headlines .
CBSS, Inc.
Network consulting firm’s site put online in late 1992 and largely unchanged to this day .
CERN’s original website
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 .
CFG (Caine, Farber & Gordon)
This consulting firm’s site—one of the first registered in 1989—remains an archaic HTML relic, complete with table-based menus 
Clinton/Gore '96: The Official Website of the Clinton/Gore '96 Campaign
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.
Coming Soon Magazine
An online gaming publication that is still preserved from 1997
Dole Kemp 96 Web Site
The 1996 Dole/Kemp presidential campaign, linking also to the Clinton/Gore 1996 campaign archive.
DrgnSlyr's Star Trek: The Ultimate Links Page
This website, hosted on Tripod, serves as a 'links page' dedicated to the Star Trek franchise and retro throwback.
Erowid
A vault of psychoactive-substance information (originating 1995), its content-heavy pages and hand-drawn navigation icons retain a decidedly retro feel .
Everything2
A collaborative community of user-written entries covering technology history, programming lore, and geek-culture essays .
FogCam!
World’s oldest continuously operating webcam, capturing San Francisco State University’s courtyard since July 1994, self advertised as The world's oldest webcam.
Fourmilab
John Walker’s personal site from the early ’90s—home to The Autodesk File and HotBits RNG—in plain, unstyled HTML .
Home of the Underdogs
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
Horror.com
Early horror movie review site launched in 1995, preserving genre articles and retro web styling .
Internet Archive
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.
Interrupt Technology Corp.
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 .
Links.net (Justin’s Links)
Justin Hall’s 1994 “Links from the Underground” web diary, widely regarded as the very first personal blog(cross-category)
Milk.com
Live since August 1994, this personal “Milk” zine site still uses basic frames and animated GIFs in its wry, hand-crafted style .
Mirsky’s Worst of the Web
David Mirsky’s acid-tongued, thrice-weekly showcase (1995–1996) of the Web’s worst pages, complete with scathing one-line reviews .
Neocities
A modern revival of the Geocities spirit—hosts new and archived “neo-vintage” personal homepages to keep the ethos of early ’90s Web alive
NetBoy
Stafford Huyler’s pioneering webcomic running since May 1994, archived in its original layout .
OldWeb.Today
A browser-emulation service (by Rhizome/Webrecorder) that lets you surf archived web pages using authentic legacy browsers like Mosaic and Netscape(cross-category)
OoCities (GeoCities Mirror)
A crowdsourced mirror of GeoCities neighborhoods, rescuing thousands of personal 1990s homepages from permanent deletion . .
Real Ultimate Power
Self-styled “homepage for ninjas” from the late ’90s, the pixel-art header and neon-text menus remain frozen in time .
Rhizome
An art-and-technology nonprofit that archives net art, runs the Webrecorder project, and preserves online cultural heritage .(cross-category)
Rice Purity Test
This early “self-assessment quiz” page still uses table layouts and GIF counters from the ’90s era .
SeanConnery.com
The official website for Sir Sean Connery, providing information about the life and career of the legendary actor in a well preserved web archive.(cross-category)
Space Jam ’96
The full original promotional site for the 1996 film Space Jam, with spinning GIFs, blinking stars, and mid-’90s design intact 
Spork
A single-serving “spoon-fork hybrid” site (registered 1995) that retains its playful, minimalist HTML design .
Texas Internet Consulting
Founded April 1987, this one-man networking and systems-architecture consultancy preserves its bare-bones, mid-’90s HTML design .
The Amazing FishCam
Netscape’s 1994 live fishtank webcam (the web’s second ever camera), still serving static snapshots through its vintage HTML player .
The Internet Classics Archive
MIT’s 1994 collection of 441 classical works, presented via a simple frame-based HTML interface with no styling beyond basic lists .
The Jargon File
The canonical glossary of hacker slang and in-jokes, documenting ARPANET culture and early Internet folklore .(cross-category)
The Old Net
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.
Trojan Room Coffee Pot
Home of the world’s first webcam, streaming a view of the coffee pot in Cambridge since 1993 .
UbuWeb
Kenneth Goldsmith’s avant-garde art “shadow library” (1996), navigable through its original, no-frills HTML directory pages
Vortex Technology
Registered October 27, 1986, Lauren Weinstein’s “People for Internet Responsibility” advocacy site still displays its original, link-list layout .
Web Design Museum
An online exhibition showcasing thousands of screenshots of classic websites, apps, and software from the 1990s through the mid-2000s(cross-category)
Webcore Wiki
A community-maintained wiki defining the “Webcore” aesthetic (Wild West/Web 1.0 era) and linking to emblematic vintage sites
Wired (HotWired)
One of the earliest magazine websites (launched October 1994 as HotWired), pioneering web journalism and banner ads .
World Wide Web Virtual Library
Tim Berners-Lee’s 1991 “subject listing” catalog survives in a bare-bones directory style, with no CSS beyond simple inline fonts 
ZOMBO DOT COM
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.
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