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
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
- Small web, IndieWeb, Gemini… A guide to the retro-web by Kevin Boone
Meme history
Old posts
My seventeen-year-old self and the Wayback Machine (11/09/25).
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