Old web sites from the early internet you can still visit
Before feeds and apps, the web was millions of hand-made pages: bright backgrounds, visitor counters, links to your friends and pages that were under construction forever. Most of it is gone. Some of it is still right there if you know where to look.
These are old internet websites you can still visit today, and the places keeping that spirit going. For the famous sites that did not make it, see the Internet Graveyard.
Space Jam (1996)
www.spacejam.com
The original movie website from 1996, still online. Tiled star background, tiny graphics and all the charm of the 90s web.
The Million Dollar Homepage
www.milliondollarhomepage.com
A student sold a million pixels for a dollar each in 2005 to pay for college. The page is still up, full of ads for sites that mostly no longer exist.
Cameron's World
www.cameronsworld.net
A giant scrolling collage made from archived GeoCities pages. The closest thing to walking through the old web in one place.
OoCities
www.oocities.org
An archive of GeoCities, saved before Yahoo shut it down. Browse the old neighbourhoods and personal pages.
The Old Net
theoldnet.com
Browse old versions of websites as they looked back in the day, using archived copies.
Zombo.com
www.zombo.com
One of the oldest jokes on the web. Welcome to Zombo.com, where anything is possible.
Berkshire Hathaway
www.berkshirehathaway.com
One of the biggest companies in the world, with a website that has barely changed since the 90s. Plain text and blue links.
Neocities
neocities.org
Free hosting for hand-made websites, started in 2013 in the spirit of GeoCities. Thousands of personal sites you can browse by tag.
Wiby
wiby.me
A search engine just for simple, old-school web pages, with a surprise button that drops you on a random one.
Wayback Machine
web.archive.org
The Internet Archive has saved billions of web pages since 1996. Type in any old address and see what it used to look like.
Old web, indie web, small web: what is the difference?
The old web is the internet of the 90s and early 2000s: GeoCities, Angelfire, personal homepages and webrings.
The indie web and the small web are people building that way again today. Personal sites, blogs and hand-made pages that belong to the person who made them, not a platform. Neocities and Wiby above are good places to find them.
That same feeling is what NexURLs is about: real people sharing sites they found, instead of a feed deciding for you. Press Next to find more.
Questions people ask
Is GeoCities still around?
No. Yahoo shut down GeoCities in the US in October 2009, and the Japanese version closed in March 2019. Archives like OoCities and collages like Cameron's World keep parts of it alive.
What is the indie web?
People running their own personal websites instead of posting everything on big platforms. Their site, their rules, their address.
How can I see what an old website looked like?
Use the Wayback Machine at web.archive.org. Type in the address and pick a date from the calendar.
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