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404PageFound – Active Vintage Websites, Old Webpages, and Web 1.0
- butokai 5y agoOf course Scaruffi is right there in the top row
- vander_elst 5y ago20+ years ago we had fast and easy to navigate websites, not sure we can say the same about today's websites.
- CTOSian 5y agoreadable dark text as well.
- jeffalo 5y agoI feel like this directory would be cooler if it also was designed like a vintage website.. it seems like it's currently just a WordPress blog with a generic theme. :(
- rnhmjoj 5y agoSome classics that are missing on this list: 1. Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics: http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm 2. Franco Maria Boschetto's personal website[1]: http://www.fmboschetto.it/ http://www.fmboschetto.it/ 3. Ripasso di matematica aka RIPMAT: http://www.ripmat.it/ http://www.ripmat.it/ [1]: hn discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22326339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22326339
- CarelessExpert 5y agoLet's not forget: The Astronomy Picture of the Day (granted, it's been updated over the years but the style is decidedly retro): https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html And the original WikiWikiWeb: http://wiki.c2.com/ http://wiki.c2.com/
- minikites 5y agoI like https://wiby.me/ https://wiby.me/ (searches pages like this) and the "surprise me" link is a nice way to fill time.
- xkeysc0re 5y agoThis fractal gallery is absolutely gorgeous - and still being updated! http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/FRACTALS.HTM http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/FRACTALS.HTM
- Scene_Cast2 5y agoIf you like that kind of fractals, check out images made by Apophysis.
- doublerabbit 5y agoFrom the site: http://www.lost-world.com/ingen/index.html http://www.lost-world.com/ingen/index.html -- whoever made that, I'm impressed.
- mattl 5y agoIt loads so quickly as its just serving up snappy little pages in a frameset. Love it.
- superkuh 5y ago<!--This file created 3/4/97 4:39 PM by Claris Home Page version 2.0-->
- dylan604 5y agoif only the text lined up with the green bar rows, that would have been super impressive for web1.0
- mattl 5y agoCould be done by wrapping each line of the text in a table and setting the background color of the rows I guess.
- dylan604 5y agoooph. with web1.0, you were probably safe making the window fit 800x600, so you could know the max-width (before it existed), and manually do line breaks. otherwise, if the table cells wrapped the text, the illusion would break. the flow would totally suck for copying the text, but that's just a bonusjonus for the DRM crowd. hell, put each word as a new cell in the row, or using a monospace font (could you in web1.0?), and put each character in a cell. nobody would be foolish enough to copy that from your website. webscrapers be damned!
- mattl 5y ago
- datlife 5y agoLooking the these pages help me appreciate how far the Web UI/UX has evolved during the past 20+ years.
- amatecha 5y agoSlightly differingly, I see how the web has evolved but also become less usable. Early web was so straightforward as the HTML tags available were so basic. The advent of comprehensive animations and high-fidelity graphics (and explicit design for web) has resulted in hard-to-scan web pages that (IMO) require far more cognitive expenditure to interact with.
- ChrisArchitect 5y ago(2014) last update anyways
- PradeetPatel 5y agoLet's not forget about the Space Jam site from 1996, it screams Geocities. https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
- mattl 5y agoWhat about it screams Geocities?