Internet Archeology: Cool Old Shit

Num7 said:
I've been thinking about this for a while. I like to look at ancient Internet stuff. I'm going to share my finds here.

Here's a pretty good one to start with. The very first video uploaded to YouTube. Can you believe it?

"Me at the zoo" by Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005.
YouTube archived version in 2006:
https://web.archive.org/web/20061208083125/http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DjNQXAC9IVRw…

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What I find mind blowing is that YouTube got ads for the first time in 2006, less than a year after it launched. And was bought by Google that same year. I remembered it being independent and ad-free for far longer. But I think the ads were unintrusive image banners etc for a long time.
Num7 said:
As a bonus, here's a bunch of micro banners webmasters used to have on their webpages for various reasons. Remember?

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Netscape was gorgeous and my favourite browser that I have never actually used, being too young lol. I just miss when the internet had this kind of vibe - that it was cosmically significant, it was an information superhighway, something entirely new. Though it still is all of those things. It's just been commodified :(
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OakFieldAlienz444 said:
Dogz, Catz, and Oddballz were great
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I spent ages and ages playing one of these, I think I had Catz and Dogz, it's still a unique art style that I appreciate. Stuff from the past is always so worth looking at - after all the dust has settled, and the boring, tacky, cheap aesthetics have been forgotten, all that's left is diamonds in the rough.

If you want 90s-2000s gifs - Cameron's World this is the place to go. Also there is this: Another Gallery of Rotating Food GIFs : various artists : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive which has many retro gifs but also many modern ones. But it will make you hungry.
 

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