this made me smile a lot. what a perfect encapsulation of a specific moment on the web & in a personâs life! itâs funny and sweet and perfectly geocities in the classic âretrowebâ style people like so much.
I was trawling the web looking for old graphics sites and came across this site: DAVIDâS VINTAGE SNOWMOBILE PAGE.
This site has been in existence since the very early 2000s and has an unbelievable amount of snowmobile information - manuals, brochures, paint codes, parts resources, technical help. I wish I was into snowmobiles just because this is such an incredible resource. The site owner makes daily additions to the site. The passion this man has for snowmobiles is something else!
Joy, laughter and despair: itâs all there on the Bunny Museum homepage. Founded 1998, updated 2025.
can the 32bit cafe get a transferable membership card to the bunny museumâŚ
Iâll chip in a fiver if everyone else doesâŚ.
here are a couple of sites to find old sites with https://wiby.me/ and https://oldavista.com/. also old cyberpunk articles from the eff: link
This is really cool, something about this is so wholesome
I saw a viral video of a snake farting, so I got curious about whatâs going on inside a snake, leading me to this page.
https://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/tderting/cva_atlases/stephsnake/snakepage3.htm
On Wayback, the oldest capture is from 2011.
The markup is very simple, and we can see
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
There is no navigation provided to a home page, but using the site: operator in a search engine helps me find https://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/tderting/derting.htm
Browsing around, I find this curiously-formatted report https://www.cfkeep.org/html/snapshot_id-59947744253974.html
I see that itâs hosted on https://www.cfkeep.org which is described as âa set of web-based tools that help teachers, students and institutions quickly create compact and engaging knowledge representations on the Web.â Itâs notable that itâs been kept online, perhaps there are many more small web pages like this created by educators still up.
Using the site: operator trick again, site:https://www.cfkeep.org/html/ I find more pages. https://www.cfkeep.org/html/snapshot_id-2478563.html, https://www.cfkeep.org/html/snapshot_id-79434230.html Most seem to be from the 2000s.
I see that the footer on the home page and elsewhere has been defaced recently by blackhat SEO, promoting âCrypto Trusted Online Casino Malaysia 2026.â The service shut down in 2009 so itâs remarkable that theyâre still online, but they must be vulnerable.
This website from NASA is lovely old and still updated daily. I wonder if there is a person updating it daily or itâs some kind of script (this would be trivial to automatize).
It features lovely tags with attributes I havenât seen for YEARS.
<body bgcolor="#F4F4FF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#7F0F9F" alink="#FF0000">
A personal site
Justin Pinchotâs Toy Rayguns
âŚa celebration and study of toy ray guns! Whimsical and zany, these fanciful objects conjure fond childhood memories of Buck Rogers and Captain Video, of backyard spaceships that blasted off for high adventure in the endless reaches of space. The stuff of fancy, toy ray guns are powered by pure imagination, by our almost unlimited capacity to wonder. Yet they represent other things as well. They are weapons intended to protect us from our deepest fears of the dark unknown, and they remind us of our vulnerability in the face of an endless and mysterious cosmos. Ray guns are testimony to the fact that we often conceive of even the majesty of space as a backdrop for our conflicts and struggles, and that we finally set foot on the moon only as the result of a deadly, war-like, competitive âraceâ between two superpower nations. From the exuberant Art Deco disintegrator pistols of the 1930s, to the streamlined and futuristic tin litho sparkers of the 50s and the darkly post-apocalyptic nitro blasters of today, toy ray guns express and represent our dreams, fears and fantasies, and it is to the study and celebration of these remarkable objects that this website is dedicated.
Donât even remember how I stumbled upon this delightfully vintage site that doesnât appear to have updated since 2006. Lots of the links are dead but there was this one that is equally old school delightful:
It looks like it was last updated about 10 or so years ago. From the site:
WELCOME to the revised SPACE OPERA website. This is the same site that started as a one page call for fans of the 1950s SF Television Shows . That was in December of 1996 and the response was more than expected and still continues. The SOLAR GUARD honors all aspects of Space Opera throughout the different imaginary universes. The call is still out so join us at the Academy and enter the AGE OF THE CONQUEST OF SPACE!!!
Tons and tons of pages! Iâve explored it a lot if the years.
Iâm WEEPING because I just found out grrl.com is still online and mostly the way I remember it! I used to lurk it a lot as a tween/teen and thought Bonnie was the coolest ever.
A cool site about needlework from 1650-1850.
I was searching for old graphics sites on 50megs.com, which surprisingly seems to be still going strong (hoping I didnât curse it because thatâs what I used to say about Tripod/Angelfire), when I came across this site:
which is wholly dedicated to the annual Pennsylvania Grim family picnic. Last update was last August! Did some searching and found a Facebook page, too. Apparently this is the annual family picnic to end all family picnics - there are official T-shirts, a corn hole contest with trophies, different competitions to enter. Iâve never seen anything quite like it! I love that while they are using modern social media they are also keeping up with a legacy website.