A retro designed portfolio for Yuji Ohimoto from 2003, highly stylized for it's time.(cross-category)

A loose collective of archivists and developers dedicated since 2009 to rescuing at-risk web content before it vanishes

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 .(cross-category)

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.(cross-category)

A volunteer‐driven archive of “field notes” on defunct communication and media technologies, inspired by Bruce Sterling’s 1995 manifesto

The 1996 Dole/Kemp presidential campaign, linking also to the Clinton/Gore 1996 campaign archive.(cross-category)

A user-edited, often irreverent wiki that chronicles memes, scandals, and subcultures across the Internet .

This website details the unique belief system of the Heaven's Gate group, asserting that a "Kingdom of Heaven" can be entered by leaving Earth via an accompanying spacecraft, integrating themes of extraterrestrial contact with their spiritual doctrine, and serves as a notable example of early internet presence for a historically significant phenomenon.

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.(cross-category)

Justin Hall’s 1994 “Links from the Underground” web diary, widely regarded as the very first personal blog

A collaboratively edited encyclopedia cataloging media once thought lost—and those recently rediscovered—across online platforms .

A general-interest community weblog (since 1999) where members share and discuss noteworthy web finds and phenomena

An online project preserving the distinctive beeps, boops, and startup chimes of obsolete tech—from dial-ups to floppy drives

Founded in 1997 by Alex Boese, this site documents historical and contemporary hoaxes, scams, and urban legends online .

A virtual museum cataloguing physical media formats—audio, video, data storage—that have fallen out of use .

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 .

Originally “Urban Legends Reference Pages,” this long-running fact-checking site debunks myths, rumors, and misinformation circulating online

Early comedy forum and Photoshop contest pioneer where many meme formats were born.(cross-category)

The canonical glossary of hacker slang and in-jokes, documenting ARPANET culture and early Internet folklore .

Bill Arnett’s “Multimedia Tour of the Solar System” site from the mid-’90s, still updated with rich planetary content .

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.(cross-category)

A generative system that produces unique, photorealistic images of human faces using artificial intelligence. This site at the time was meant to highlight the capacity for AI to generate realistic human faces.(cross-category)

The parody “anti-encyclopedia” spoofing Wikipedia with satirical takes on web culture and lore .

A crowdsourced dictionary for slang words and phrases—often the first stop for decoding emerging Internet language and memes

An online exhibition showcasing thousands of screenshots of classic websites, apps, and software from the 1990s through the mid-2000s

A suite of open-source tools for capturing and replaying interactive web content, pioneered by Rhizome’s digital preservation team

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.(cross-category)