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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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Tell us what happened

Specific, personal and slightly scrappy beats polished corporate history every time.

A few paragraphs is ideal. This is a pub story, not a memoir.
Link an old site, archive snapshot, screenshot, repo, blog post, X thread or anything else that belongs with the story.
Submissions are reviewed before they appear. Names can be changed to protect the guilty, but the story itself should be real.
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