Pull up a beige chair. These are true little stories from people who built, broke, ranked, hosted and accidentally monetised the early web—and a living archive of internet history told by the people who were there.

Coding stories

Batch files, Perl, CGI, JavaScript snippets and code held together by hope.

5 old hands

2021 Coding 29 Aug 2026

Play 8 Questions & Win a Domino’s Pizza!

I wanted to learn .NET MVC, so I decided to make it a little fun. I built a deadly little game where you have to answer 8 questions. Answer each question within 8 seconds: ✅ Correct: +3 ❌ Incorrect: -1 ⏭️ Skipped: 0 And the best part? The person at the top of the scoreboard wins…

by @rishabhnasa 0 comments share

2 old hands

1988 Coding 6 days ago

C64 ROM disassembler. How I got my first 400 customers by mail order!

It was Christmas day 1986. I hadn’t slept the night before because I knew that sat under the tree was likely to be a brand new shiny Commodore 64 with monitor and 5 ¼ inch floppy drive to replace my Oric Atmos. I wasn’t disappointed either – that morning changed everything. Alre…

by Nick Smith 0 comments share

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A community scrapbook for the people who built the web before anybody knew what the rules were.

Short stories, odd jobs, old tricks, lucky breaks, terrible code and the occasional cheque in the post.

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Tell a story you actually lived.
Keep it readable over one cup of tea.
No pretending everything was better.
Names can be changed to protect the guilty.