Websites aged like fine wine.
We can have a different web
Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.
Old'aVista
A search engine for OLD websites hosted in services like Geocities, Angelfire, Xoom, AOL, Tripod and so on!
My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.
Web Design Museum – Discover old websites, apps, software & Flash Games
Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of screenshots and videos of websites, apps, software, and Flash games from the 1990s to the late 2000s.
The Sites of The Useless Web
The current roster of useless websites on The Useless Web — with the story behind each one.
The Sites We Lost
A memorial to the weird little corners of the internet that lived on The Useless Web.
VC&G | » My memories of what life was like before the Internet
Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.
21 Years of YouTube Website Design History - 39 Images - Version Museum
A comprehensive visual history of YouTube.com from 2005 to 2026. See a gallery of the YouTube.com evolution from the beginning to present day.
18 Years of Internet Explorer Design History - 54 Images - Version Museum
A comprehensive visual history of Microsoft Internet Explorer from 1995 to 2013. See a gallery of the Microsoft Internet Explorer evolution from the beginning to 2013.
rip.so :: the digital graveyard
A memorial to the messengers, social networks, browsers and websites the internet forgot.
Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending
Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era
The grand idealism of the free and open internet might be over for now, but in its place falls a more practical mindset. Just like Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs are entering their “Hard Tech” era, the people building web alternatives are also entering their Post-Naive Era. Here are the names to know.
How the Web Was Lost – James Gleick
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Webby Tim Berners-Lee with Stephen WittFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 389 pp., $30
Weird Wide Web 🐑
Interesting, strange, and beautiful websites that somehow amazed me. I love them.
background textures and patterns
Bluesky Map
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Holocloth
Grata
Static — a static page about static