The Old Web

My homage to the web of old. The late 90s, early 00s. The web of my youth. Times New Roman might be a more standard pick for a 90s web font but I always used Verdana. I wrote Thirty years on the web (27/10/25).

Links

• the first website, by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN
• list of websites founded before 1995
• The Geocities Gallery - A restored visual gallery of the archived Geocities sites, sorted by neighbourhood
• Play The Oregon Trail on Internet Archive
• Cameron's World
• Neocities sites. Just generally

Nostalgia

• forums. phpBB, naturally
• lots of history libraries and archives
• The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Wayback 2002 and current form
• The Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Wayback 2002 and current form
• The Internet Classics Archive
• Luminarium
• Perseus Digital Library
• The Victorian Web
• Fanac Fan History Project featuring scifi fanzines from the Thirties
• Tom's Xena Page
• The Kitten Board - Willow/Tara fandom

Might list some of my favourite older memes.

More

• A short history of the internet from the Science and Media Museum
• The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley
• Internet in the United Kingdom
• A ‘Fun’ Fad, or the Future? Files show how British government officials remained ambivalent about the arrival of the internet in the 1990s

Old posts

My seventeen-year-old self and the Wayback Machine (11/09/25).

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