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

user-submitted irreverent pictures, cartoons, animations, and games, alongside various community boards, in a retro aesthetic started in 2001 with the slogan "WE LOVE THE WEB!" Responsible for many early memes.(cross-category)

A curated gallery of websites featuring 'brutalist' design principles, highlighting rugged and unconventional aesthetics. The collection serves as an exploration of a distinct web design movement.(cross-category)

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)

An entertainment website founded in 2001 that features comedy content such as memes, videos, images, and other forms of Internet culture.(cross-category)

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

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.(cross-category)

Impressive, and extensive animated scene incorporating numerous references from popular culture, including memes, video games, movies, television series, anime, and musical artists.(cross-category)

The Hampster Dance is one of the earliest Internet memes. Created in 1997 by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte as a GeoCities page, the dance features rows of animated GIFs of hamsters and other rodents dancing in various ways to a sped-up sample from the song "Whistle-Stop" by Roger Miller.

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 .

by Neal Agarwal, featuring a collection of interactive games, visualizations, and thought-provoking experiments. It's known for its unique blend of entertainment and educational content, often using data and concepts in playful and engaging ways.(cross-category)

A browser-emulation service (by Rhizome/Webrecorder) that lets you surf archived web pages using authentic legacy browsers like Mosaic and Netscape

Started in 2000, and dubbed as "The Lair Of The Crab Of Ineffable Wisdom" by Joel Veitch. Features animations, live action puppeteering. They've worked with many major companies but likely most known for their infamously off-putting Quizno's adverts.(cross-category)

An art-and-technology nonprofit that archives net art, runs the Webrecorder project, and preserves online cultural heritage .

detailed information about an endangered arboreal cephalopod species, detailing its habitat and threat

reviews for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction books since 1999

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)

A recreation of a personal homepage with garish over usage of gifs and hard to read text. You'll love it.

A bizarre dedication to a biological taxonomy and cataloguing of bread clips, referred to as occlupanids.(cross-category)

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

Times were simpler in 2005 when British student, Alex Tew created online venture where digital advertising space is sold in one-dollar pixel units on a single webpage. It contained 2,816 links. By 2019 40% of the links suffered link rot.

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)

A curious 3D browser experience of an animated watch(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)