The Vintage Web

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.

The Vintage Technology Digital Archive

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.

Archiving web sites

I recently took a deep dive into web site archival for friends who were worried about losing co [...]

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.

Legends of the Ancient Web

This is the text version of a talk I gave on May 24, 2017, at the Front Trends conference in Warsaw.

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.

The Disappearing World Wide Web

Fare thee well, oh honey...

Federated Webrings

In the glory days of web 1.0, social websites would prominently link out to their digital neighbors via lists known as webrings; magical doorways to an expansive hinterland of digital villages.