18 Ancient Websites You Won't Believe Still Exist
Here's a website from the early 90s dedicated to sporks:
That's not even the only ode to sporks still alive and well on the web. "I've found that there were very few references to cats back then," Katlic says. Clearly, cats are the new spork.
Where else would people get their daily fractals in 1995?
This 1995 site taught readers tips on how to build their own web pages:
CNN's main page for the O.J. Simpson trial still exists from the mid-90s:
Katlic found a lot of these ancient sites by buying books from the early 90s that listed hundreds of websites in them.
This strange Australian game from 1995 lets you navigate through a castle, sort of...
It's cool that Fluffy's World is "still tucked away in a little corner of Cyberspace." The site was last updated in 1995.
A morbid game created in 1994 and last updated in 2004 lets you attack Barney with a variety of weapons (warning: It works reaaally slowly).
Like a super-early version of Yelp, from 1995:
The rest of this 1995 site is definitely worth exploring, as it's jam-packed with old pictures of corporate balloons:
The code of this extremely minimalist site hasn't changed since at least October 1999.
"This site is a perfect example of the type of graphical humor you could find on the Internet in its first couple of years," Katlic writes.
McSpotlight calls itself the "biggest, loudest, most red, most read Anti-McDonald's extravaganza the world has ever seen":
This amazing site is the perfect reminder that before GIFs were cool today, they had a huge heyday in the 90s:
Warner Bros' Space Jam site is probably the most popular old website:
But Nickelodeon still has a website for "Amanda Please," a segment of "The Amanda Show" about Amanda Bynes:
Now, a look at some old websites that might be a little more familiar...
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