Internet Artifacts

I'm not sure how younger folks would feel seeing this...perhaps that it's ugly, less useful, sparse. And they'd be a bit right.

But for me this was a hit of pure nostalgia, flipping item to item. Almost like looking through an old photo album of memories you'd forgotten years back. Thanks Neal for putting it together.

Slightly fun fact - the original Space Jam site stayed intact until 2021!

https://web.archive.org/web/20210105185246/https://www.space...

Very cool. Interesting bit about Heaven's Gate. I was young when it happened and have a vague memory of reading a Time magazine article with a cross-sectional drawing of the building with people in beds in different rooms.

Reading up on Wikipedia, I don't understand how they got from "sleeping in tents and sleeping bags and begging in the streets" in 1975, to "stopped recruiting and became reclusive" in 1976, to purchasing land, renting a $7000 house with cash, and operating a cutting-edge web design firm in the mid-90s.

I was blown away with how great of a website and resource this was and the way that things loaded (to emulate old internet) then saw it was neal.fun

Neal.fun always kills it with these things. Love them so much.

> Geocities had an interactive 2D map, allowing users to navigate through these virtual spaces. (1994)

I got online around ~10 years old in ~1998 and got into web dev soon after. I remember using Geocities and Angelfire and FortuneWeb and all that but I do not remember this interactive 2D map. I do remember the various "communities" or neighborhoods but not this. Was it gone by this point or was I just so focused on the free hosting I never noticed?

It took me a long time to realize the web was so new back when I started out, less then a decade old itself. Pretty surreal to see where its gone.

I also would consider Digg to be the direct predecessor of Reddit. If I recall correctly it was more popular until possibly as late as 2010.

I remember researching about early era of internet while trying to make a game for a game jam about online shopping, and damn, it sure is a deep rabbit hole.

would be cool for it to be less west/america-centric.

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music was updated in 2019. Forever ago in Internet years but more recent than the original.

When I see Neal, I know it's gonna be Fun

The hours I wasted on that helicopter game. It was the Flappy Bird of its day.

I'm disappointed that Bad Apple!! is not there.

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