Do you sleep with that Altavista , the almighty internet search weapons platform before Google waken , is still on-line ? Okay , it ’s integrated into Yahoo , but the domain and the user interface is up and running . Just likeHotBot ! Anyone call back HotBot ? AndLycos?WebCrawler ?
These legendary hunt engines have come through for almost twenty year . Back in the 1990s , for most of us , they were The Internet . Even if their current design has become entirely different , the fact that they are alive and operational at all is purely amazing . I made quick hunt for more of these intact interweb site and homepage with original historic details — HTML 2.0 , frames , and animgifs — utterly preserve from the glorious 90s . After wiping my tears off , I present you with 23 of them .
The Lost World
Warner Bros has a few nicely conserved promotional websites . Everyone knows theSpace Jamclassic , and theWild Wild Westpage . My personal favorite is the Jurassic Park : The Lost World site , which was ( is ) a consummate viral selling effort INGEN , the fictional companionship central to the movie .
The Lost World – Jurassic Park motion picture website
Memepool
One of the first biotic community blogs ever — in fact , one of the first blogs , period of time . Started in 1998 , muted in 2006 , restart in 2012 . Always look exactly like in 1998 . YAY !
Arngren
With its pickle of a layout , this immense Norse gadget gross sales site is surely the craziest of all . The content is mostly up - to - particular date , but for most contemporaneous visitors , it is more fun to collect all the animated objects than to do any real shopping . distinguish the beckon Santa Claus , find all the dancing robot , and the do not miss the hot ‘ PIKE.flashtits1.gif ’ among the distant see to it model helicopters . retard out the Christmas - theme footer , too !
DPGraph
dynamical Photorealistic 3D Graphing Software for Math and Physics Visualization . gross hardcore Science and psychedelic animated gifs from 1997 — could you want any more than this ?
Dole/Kemp’96
We recently noticed thatBob Dole ’s sad 1996 campaign website is still on-line . Just checked : Still online .
https://gizmodo.com/bob-doles-sad-1996-campaign-website-is-still-online-5960169
DoleKemp96
Pacific Racing
The OJ Simpson Trial Hub
CNN still has n’t take down the main varlet from the 1996 visitation of Orenthal James Simpson . It ’s in reality quite a complete imagination — the backlinks take you through the entire trial , from “ Simpson Recalls Day of Murders ” to “ Sobbing , Elation at Simpson Verdict . ”
OJ Simpson Trial Hub
ALIWEB
SEARCH THE WORLD ! ALIWEB ( Archie Like Indexing for the World Wide Web ) is considered the first web hunt locomotive engine ( announced in November 1993 ) . Thank the God Of The Interwebs one can still admire its prehistoric knockout .
CNN’s 1996 Year in Review
A nice small subpage cover on a distant CNN host . Oh yeah , the Olympics were in Atlanta … weird !
CNN ’s 1996
The Internet 1996 World Exposition
This situation , with a immense amount of subpages , is like a yearly of Internet in ’ 96 . A quote from Rob Blokzijl , Secretary - General of the World ’s Fair For The Information Age : “ This has allow a meeting full point for artists , engineers , corporate executive director , and hoi polloi in all walk of life . Several thousand pavilion from 75 countries have participated in this fair and we ’ve had 5 million visitant from 130 land and territories . ” What a success !
net 1996 World Exposition
McSpotlight
The crowing , loudest , most read Anti - McDonald ’s extravaganza the macrocosm has ever seen . Get ’em , McLibel .
TACO
“ We do not sell taco . We do not make taco . In fact some of us do not even care them very much . ” This is the site of the Technical Advisors COmpany ( TACO ) , flat from the 90 , still crackling with that subtle SysAdmin humor .
wetback
Agroweb
entropy AND SERVICES IN PRODUCTION Department of Agriculture . That about says it all . Created in 1996 , last update in 1996 , last view in 2012 . Best view with Netscape Software !
WestNet
Click this . WestNet was a full - servicing Internet supplier located in Westchester County , New York , founded in 1994 . The company provided dial - up access for the New York metropolitan field and northerly New Jersey , in addition to DSL , leased - line of merchandise access code and World Wide Web hosting services . They still store a lot of nice subpages , just like theseUser ’s Home Pages .
Westnet
TravelASSIST Magazine
When produce in 1995 , this website was probably the first on-line travel magazine . Its content dates from 1996 , and among the articles , you may find gems like theAPPLE QuickTake 150digital tv camera , orKODAK DC40 Digital Camerareviews .
TravelASSIST
Excite
Fanfare.wav ! The Excite hunt railway locomotive is still online too , and almost exactly look like when it was blade new . you could use it to look for for newsworthiness on the Dole / Kemp ticket .
Instanet
If rarified HTML 2.0 pages could go on vendue , Instant Internet Corporation ’s web page would worth trillion . Just calculate at this beginning code—’DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “ -//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0 plus SQ / ICADD Tables//EN . ’ Wow .
RainDrop Labs
“ Connecting Portland to the World Since 1985″—and to the World spacious Web since 1997 . Among the services provided by RainDrop Laboratories : Unix eggshell access code , Unix system administration and connection government activity on an hourly basis . electronic mail and connection hosting is also available .
RainDrop
The Klingon Language Institute
Hello to all Star Trek philology devotee out there ! Although the doctype statement in the source say this page is in HTML 4.01 , it is by all odds a magic Web 1.0 site not update for more than a decade .
Kli.org
CuisineNet Digest
make you say “ Nomomnomnomnom ” since 1997 .
IFINDIT
I Find It – THE LARGEST SUPER SEARCH GUIDE ON THE NET . ( Please dress Your Screen Resolution To 800×600 For Optimal Viewing . ) The year is 1995 . Holy mother of Strategic Microsystems ! Google , where were you in 1995 ? I assume were search for your rattle .
ENTERWeb
A small ‘ Knowledge Portal for Small Business ’ that basically has n’t change since 1996 . Except , maybe , the same button was likely summate in 2012 . waitress . What ? Only 5 multitude like this ? I wish this ! You could be the first of your champion to wish it , too !
Altavista
Here it is , mass , the matter that taught most of us what the set phrase “ search locomotive engine ” even mean .
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