cozy 90s BBS forums, obscure blogs, etc.
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https://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.html
I’m pretty sure spacejam.com showed that page up until the sequel supplanted it.
I feel that right in the MySpace.
Really awesome old school sites. Crazy gifs, web rings, etc.
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Florida’s unemployment website
If you want one that isn’t actually from that time, just feels like it, I’d say https://tildes.net/
Not the original, but…
How is it that 2 days after this posted no one has said “Craigslist.”
Debian’s website….
They are trying to be 90s, but I love it. I thought they had a site counter at some point, but maybe I am misremembering and it was just the guest book.
My healthcare services websites. Their website and mobile app require separate logins. The website logs in then redirects to a completely different website.
They have a tax-free “store” that feels like a completely different website.
Everything is laid out using what seems like the idea of middle management and not modern design philosophy.
TreasuryDirect also feels classic. If you’re not familiar, it’s a US government website to buy and sell certain types of treasury bonds. Some great features:
- an image so you know you didn’t typo your username (haven’t seen that in well over a decade)
- clicking a link is a new page, and clicking back breaks stuff and makes you login again
- until recently, you couldn’t paste in the password field
It does do some modern-ish things with page layout, but not that modern, like maybe early 2000s modern. But it’s perennially stuck about 20 years in the past.
gradients, animated GIFs, “best browsed on”, and a frame once you click enter. Only thing it’s missing is an index page.
Excellent example.
Ebay
I imagine their source code is such an unmaintainable mess that it’s impossible to modernize
it was written in FORTRAN
