Pile #5 · Old Internet
Old internet websites that nobody switched off
Before feeds and algorithms, the web was a collection of odd personal projects, tiled backgrounds and pages that did one ridiculous thing. A surprising number of those pages are still online, untouched, like rooms nobody has entered in decades.
This pile is a small archive of the survivors: promotional sites from the nineties, legendary one-joke pages and early viral experiments, with the full old internet aesthetic of tiled GIFs, table layouts and visitor counters intact. Many carry legendary rarity, because finding them still working is its own small miracle.
Inventory · 24 items · rarest first
Cameron’s World
★ LEGENDARY💾 Old Internet
A giant collage of rescued GeoCities pages.
A love letter to the old internet, built from text and images dug out of archived GeoCities homepages from 1994 to 2009. Scrolling through it feels like walking past a million forgotten bedrooms.
Homestar Runner
★ LEGENDARY💾 Old Internetest. 2000
The legendary cartoon website. Still posting.
A web cartoon series that defined early internet humour, with Strong Bad emails, strange characters and inside jokes that a generation still quotes. It never really went away.
Nyan Cat
★ LEGENDARY💾 Old Internetest. 2011
A pop-tart cat flies through space. A timer counts how long you last.
The famous rainbow-trailing cat, looping forever with its song, while a counter proudly tracks how many seconds you have spent watching. People have spent hours.
Space Jam (1996)
★ LEGENDARY💾 Old Internetest. 1996
The original 1996 Space Jam website, preserved like a fossil.
A movie promo site from 1996 that was simply never taken down. Tiled starfield background, planet-shaped navigation, image maps. A working museum exhibit of the early web.
The First Website
★ LEGENDARY💾 Old Internetest. 1991
The page where the World Wide Web explained itself.
A restored copy of the very first web page, published at CERN to describe the World Wide Web project. Plain text, blue links, no images. Everything in this junkyard descends from it.
Visit ↗ The First Website (opens in a new tab)Details about The First WebsiteWeb 1.0Time CapsuleLegendThe Million Dollar Homepage
★ LEGENDARY💾 Old Internetest. 2005
A million pixels sold for a dollar each. It actually worked.
In 2005 a student sold ad space on a single page one pixel at a time, a dollar per pixel. It sold out. Today it is a patchwork of tiny logos, many pointing at websites that no longer exist.
Visit ↗ The Million Dollar Homepage (opens in a new tab)Details about The Million Dollar HomepagePixelsTime CapsuleAdvertisingZombocom
★ LEGENDARY💾 Old Internetest. 1999
Anything is possible. The only limit is yourself.
A spinning logo and a very enthusiastic voice promising that anything is possible. For decades, nothing else has ever happened there. A founding monument of the pointless web.
Zoomquilt
★ LEGENDARY🌀 Weirdest. 2004
An infinite painted zoom that never, ever arrives.
A collaborative painting stitched together so every scene hides the next one inside it. The camera keeps zooming. You keep watching. Neither of you gets anywhere.
Arngren.net
RARE RELIC💀 WTF
A real Norwegian gadget shop with the densest layout on Earth.
A genuine online store selling scooters, drones, gadgets and oddities, with every product crammed onto one chaotic page of overlapping photos and prices. It is famous among designers for all the wrong reasons.
Badger Badger Badger
RARE RELIC💾 Old Internetest. 2003
Badgers. Mushroom. Snake. On a loop.
The original dancing badgers animation, still looping with its unforgettable song. It interrupts itself only for a mushroom and, occasionally, a snake.
Visit ↗ Badger Badger Badger (opens in a new tab)Details about Badger Badger Badger⚠ Plays audioAnimalsAudioAnimationMemeBerkshire Hathaway
RARE RELIC💾 Old Internet
A giant company’s homepage. It looks like 1998.
One of the most valuable companies in the world runs a homepage made of plain blue links on a white page. No hero image, no animations. It works perfectly, which somehow makes it funnier.
Visit ↗ Berkshire Hathaway (opens in a new tab)Details about Berkshire HathawayWeb 1.0Real BusinessMinimalJODI
RARE RELIC💾 Old Internet
Net art that looks like your browser is broken.
A pioneering piece of internet art made of green code, ASCII drawings and pages that seem to malfunction on purpose. Look at the page source. The art is in there too.
Le Duchamp
RARE RELIC🌀 Weirdest. 2008
A bicycle wheel on a stool, from a famous artwork.
Rafaël Rozendaal’s web tribute to a famous early readymade: a bicycle wheel mounted on a stool, casting its shadow on a white page.
LINGsCARS
RARE RELIC💀 WTF
A real car leasing business designed like a fever dream.
A genuine UK car leasing company whose website looks like every web design rule was broken on purpose. Blinking elements, clashing colours, chaos everywhere. And it sells cars.
Superbad.com
RARE RELIC💀 WTF
A decades-old maze of baffling pages.
An early experimental art site that opens with huge red text about a robot gone haywire and leads into a labyrinth of odd, unlabelled pages. Nobody fully knows how deep it goes.
Windows 93
RARE RELIC💾 Old Internet
A fake operating system from an alternate 1993.
A full parody desktop in your browser, packed with strange programs, glitchy toys and in-jokes. It feels like booting a computer from a timeline where things went slightly wrong.
Zoomquilt 2
RARE RELIC🌀 Weirdest. 2007
The infinite zooming painting, part two.
The sequel to the legendary infinite zoom: a collaborative painting where every scene hides inside the next. Created by a group of illustrators, it keeps falling inward forever.
Albino Blacksheep
UNCOMMON💾 Old Internet
An archive of Flash-era animations, games and oddities.
One of the long-running homes of internet animations, silly games and music from the Flash era. You can even switch the site theme back to how it looked in 2001.
Crouton
UNCOMMON🗑 Pointless
A white page. A single crouton in the corner.
The entire website is one small picture of a crouton, tucked into the top-left corner of an empty white page. It has been like this for a very long time. It does not need to change.
I Has a Bucket
UNCOMMON😂 Funny
A walrus. A bucket. A tragedy in two panels.
The classic meme of a walrus proudly holding a bucket, followed by the moment someone takes it away. The whole domain exists to preserve that emotional journey.
jacksonpollock.org
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
Move your mouse. Drip paint like a famous painter.
An empty canvas that splatters paint wherever your cursor goes. Click to change colour. Within a minute you have something that would confuse an art critic.
Visit ↗ jacksonpollock.org (opens in a new tab)Details about jacksonpollock.orgArtDrawingInteractiveThe Human Clock
UNCOMMON🌀 Weird
The current time, held up by a stranger in a photo.
Every minute of the day has its own photo, sent in by someone who found the time written somewhere: on a sign, a cake, a hand. It tells the time more slowly and much more warmly than your phone.
The Useless Web
UNCOMMON💾 Old Internetest. 2012
One button. It throws you somewhere useless. Sound familiar?
A single big button that sends you to a random pointless website. It is one of the ancestors of this junkyard, and we salute it from a safe distance.
Visit ↗ The Useless Web (opens in a new tab)Details about The Useless WebButtonRandomClassic InternetWorld’s Biggest PAC-MAN
UNCOMMON🗑 Pointless
An endless maze stitched together from player-made mazes.
Players build maze tiles and they all connect into one enormous game board. The global stats count pac-dots in numbers too large to read out loud.
Questions nobody needed answered
Are old internet websites still online?
Many are. Everything in this pile is a live website from the early web, not a screenshot, so you can click around the way people did at the time.
Is the original Space Jam website still online?
Yes. The 1996 site is preserved and still looks the way it did at launch.
What was the Million Dollar Homepage?
A 2005 page where one million pixels of advertising space were sold for a dollar each. It sold out, and the page is still online today.