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The original page describing the World Wide Web project, restored by CERN at its first address. Plain text and a few links.
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The First Website sits in Old Net Art under Retro, and we have it filed as instant — good within five seconds of loading. It reads as nostalgic and brainy.
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.
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.
A browsable restoration of the GeoCities neighbourhoods, so you can wander into Area51 or SunsetStrip the way people once did.
An exhaustive archive of worlds built in a 1991 ASCII game creator, catalogued with more care than most national collections.
Rhizome's restored survey of a hundred works of net art, each with the context needed to understand why it mattered.
Screenshots of archived GeoCities pages posted automatically, one after another, as a rolling portrait of the amateur web.
The original film's promotional site, left online untouched for nearly thirty years and preserved when the sequel arrived.
Everything people typed at each other on bulletin board systems before the web existed, preserved as plain text and left open.