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BlueMaxima's Flashpoint is a webgame preservation project
flash games and websites from a different era of the internet.
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Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival
this website has been around for over 20 years, looking exactly as it looks now. it's a science website on psychedelics. little details and secrets everywhere.
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Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute
lose yourself in the commercial aesthetics of years past.
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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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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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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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The Whimsical Web
a list of websites with fun features
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wwwtxt
snippets from the old web, messages from the past
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Windows 93
non existent windows version simulated, full of little bits to explore
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Windows 99
"I think Windows 99 has done a far better job at creating a parafictional OS, with all due respect. :p" - win99 (for what it's worth, i agree)
Internet black holes
Browser Games
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Color Game
look at a color for a few seconds, then try to replicate it from memory as closely as you can
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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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egg
egg, egg, egg, egg (by terry cavanagh)
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Funny Farm
a word association game that will absorb hours of my life every once in a while
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HTML Tags Memory Test
how many html tags can you name from memory?
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Messenger
a lovely 3d browser game where you deliver some mail and meet some folks
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Minute Cryptic
cryptic puzzles! and basics to help you solve them
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Redactle
guess the wikipedia article from a mostly redacted version. sort of like hangman but no losing
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RSVP
a cute board game adaptation
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words.zip
an infinite expanse of collaborative word search
Music
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Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
browse by subgenre and decade, great for discovery
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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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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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GifCities
search gifs from archived geocities pages. a project by the internet archive. all computer gifs on the sides of this page were found there.
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The Iconolog
huge collection of 32x32 icons
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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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Peachie's Collection of Cute Stuff
cute little gifs, neatly categorized
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Awesome Piracy
way more links
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downloading textbooks and ebooks - a guide
what it says up there
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readcomiconline
comics
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the watch cartoon online (?)
cartoons
Video channels
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Brian David Gilbert
multitalented comedy person
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Brickcrafts
beautifully detailed lego cities
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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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Numberphile
videos about interesting math bits.
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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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Pushing Up Roses
great reviews of old videogames and shitty television and movies.
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Sandwiches of History
barry makes one historical sandwich every day. that's it.
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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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Titli's Busy Kitchen
the video intros say more about this channel than i ever could. that, and recipes.
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Vampire Robot
little video vignettes of life in the 70s-early 2000s
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Vsauce
science, but, like, weird?