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OW The Old Web True stories from the strange early internet.
Stories from when websites were uploaded by hand, search engines could be frightened, and somebody always knew a bloke with a Perl script.
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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.

Early Web stories

Hand-coded pages, browser wars, dial-up and the web before the rules settled.
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Webrings

Back when Google was in its infancy, Yahoo was meh, and AskJeeves was just terrible, we had webrings. You'd find a site on something you were interested in, and at the bottom of the page, there'd be a thing saying the name of the webring that site belonged to, along with "back"…

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I made a site on Tripod that was totally pink

I had an idea to interview everyone I knew and publish them online, but first I needed a site. I picked Tripod and for some reason made it completely pink. Every single thing. Pink. None of my friends even had the internet, but I only managed to talk two people into letting me i…

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I made a Flash website

Flash website: select a navigation button,a trapdoor opens and the button drops through and is left hanging. Added accompanying chain creaking sounds effects when the trap was reset and the button was "reeled" back onto the navigation area. The trap is reset, ready for it's next…