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Comment by irtefa | Hacker News Reader

I love this kind of internet archaeology. It's crazy to think how many sites like this have just been sitting untouched for years. What else is out there?

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May I present Well Made Web, a gallery of inventive and distinguished websites: https://wmw.thran.uk

One example is Internet Related Technologies which was reporting on new web standards during 1998-2001, last updated in 2001 and still online for all that time: https://wmw.thran.uk/dowdy/2.html#irt

From IRT we have why use CSS, in case anyone still needs convinced: https://irt.org/articles/js135/

Ooh they even talk about DHTML! I had forgotten about that.

My favourite is http://perdu.com, from 1998. I've been using it with ping when testing internet connectivity for years

Wow, I had completely forgot about this website. Thanks for sharing it, now I know where I am :)

Mine is https://something.com/

I used to check ITHell every day, the same way I read HN now. Then around 2001 it just sort of died, and has been frozen in time ever since.

http://ithell.com/

https://zombo.com/

It's impressive (or possibly sad) how well the joke has held up.

What's great about zombocom is that the only limitation is yourself.

You like archeology? Ok, have fun here...

http://borg.uu3.net/ldetweil/

> John Labovitz's e-zine-list - very well maintained, comprehensive list of cyberspatial "zines". Zines are the killer app of cyberspace, like the bible was for Gutenberg.

Take a look at the page source. Unfortunately they stopped updating their Twitter (X) in 2013. https://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

There's a nostalgia about the old web, where things were uplifting, good and positive.

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