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Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute
lose yourself in the commercial aesthetics of years past.
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Russian Psychoanalytic Art Mystery
old and unsolved/unsolvable, many links broken. both "viral" content and people's knowledge of mental illness were very different in 2006.
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Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival
this website has been around for at least 17 years, looking exactly as it looks now. it's a science website on psychedelics. little details and secrets everywhere.
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HTML Tags Memory Test
how many html tags can you name from memory?
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City Guesser
guess the city from a first person video of someone walking around. see if your home country looks distinctly familiar, even if you've never been to the place shown in the video
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The Whimsical Web
a list of websites with fun features
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JPEGFANTASY
interior design from the 80s/90s/early 00s, very relaxing to look at for some reason
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wwwtxt
snippets from the old web, messages from the past
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Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
browse by subgenre and decade, great for discovering
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Garbage Day, a newsletter about having fun online by Ryan Broderick
stories from various regions of the internet
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Windows 93
non existent windows version simulated, full of little bits to explore
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Guess my word
guess a word, with only alphabetical position clues. you can go for fastest time or for fewer guesses. changes every day, there are two difficulties.
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Winamp Skin Museum
over 65000!! winamp skins from archive.org. some of my favorite styles are 2000's blobby-shiny, futuristic hi-fi system, minimalistic and handwritten
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BlueMaxima's Flashpoint is a webgame preservation project
flash games and websites from a different era of the internet.
Fun web stuff



Reads
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Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
an interesting experiment
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Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment
bring back user customizable uis
- Why Japanese Web Design Is So… Different
- Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet
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Rediscovering the Small Web, by Parimal Satyal
what pushed me to finally make this page
- From context collapse to content collapse, by Nicholas Carr
- 🌱 My blog is a digital garden, not a blog, by Joel Hooks



Music
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KEXP
great live performances. the hipster tiny desk, if you will.
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Stoned Meadow of Doom
stoner rock albums. added value in the band/album names which tend to be hilarious.
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Vapor Memory
from the channel description: explore the classic and modern sounds of the late Internet age (vaporwave, dreampunk, ambient, experimental electronic, psychedelia, alternative, industrial, darkwave, minimal synth, long etc.)

Resources
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Bellsnwhistles
extremely 90s graphics
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The Iconolog
huge collection of 32x32 icons, some of them are in this page
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Lea Verou's CSS3 Patterns Gallery
cool patterns you can customize, they're made only using CSS
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GifCities
search gifs from archived geocities pages. a project by the internet archive.
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Peachie's Collection of Cute Stuff
cute little gifs neatly categorized
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CSS Tricks
so many interesting and helpful snippets
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CSS Gradient
visual tool for making color gradients and generating the corresponding CSS (i never seem to remember the linear-gradient syntax)



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readcomiconline
comics
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downloading textbooks and ebooks - a guide
what it says up there
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the watch cartoon online (?)
cartoons
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Awesome Piracy
way more links



Video channels
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Pushing Up Roses
great reviews of old videogames and shitty television and movies.
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Steve1989MREInfo
you hate the military but suddenly you've watched 35 uninterrupted minutes of a man reviewing various military rations. that is the magic of steve.
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Tom Scott
interesting places, science, linguistics, computing, random knowledge.
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Numberphile
videos about interesting math bits.
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LGR / LGR Blerbs
anyone who giggles at 3d font creation software on a windows 98 computer setup is just alright with me.
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Techmoan
old and weird tech reviews.
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Rescue & Restore
restoration of vintage toys and such. very satisfying to watch.
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Odd Tinkering
also restorations, but this person does gaming consoles and if you haven't seen a yellowed gameboy return to pristine condition thanks to a combination of hydrogen peroxide and uv light, then what are you still doing here
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Peaceful Cuisine
lovely cooking videos with no music, no talking, only gentle sounds (look for the ASMR tagged videos)
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Brian David Gilbert
multitalented comedy person
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Vsauce
science, but, like, weird? sadly not very active anymore


