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One of the first things the internet ever collectively lost its mind over, and it is still rows of dancing rodents and one loop.
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The Hampster Dance sits in Old Net Art under Retro, filed as instant.
About this category: Personal pages, hand-written HTML, Winamp skins and net art from an era when nobody had decided what a website was supposed to look like.
Yes. The Hampster Dance is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use The Hampster Dance without signing up for anything.
Yes. The Hampster Dance works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It does need sound, so bring headphones.
We file it as "Instant": Good within five seconds of loading.
Winamp itself, reimplemented faithfully enough that the equaliser works. It really whips the llama's behind, in a browser tab.
Roughly a hundred thousand Winamp skins, all loadable in the browser. An enormous accidental record of amateur graphic design.
Eight hours on the networks that existed before the internet reached homes, released free by the person who made it.
A 1996 US presidential campaign website, still up, still exactly as it was. An accidental museum of early political web design.
Aggregates everything the music blogs posted today into one stream, which is how people found new records before playlists took over.
Every interactive fiction file anyone thought worth keeping since 1992, in a directory listing that has never once been redesigned.
Coin-operated arcade cabinets from the seventies onward, emulated in a tab, attract mode and all.
A student sold a million pixels of advertising at a dollar each in 2005. The mosaic is still up, and most of the links now go nowhere.
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