Foodreference.com: Food Articles, Trivia, Festivals, Recipes, History
Started in 1999, kinda looks 1999, still being updated! Absolute treasure trove of food-related stuff!
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This one is great! I love keeping sites like this on hand for just scrolling through and reading when Iām having trouble sleeping or stuck somewhere and just want to explore for a while.
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Website of Xiph.orgās cdparanoia. Evidently, hasnāt been updated since 2008:
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Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives
Started in 2002, still going strong and hasnāt appeared to change its look very much, if at all.
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The official Spore game website (2009) still works.
The Sporecasts feature where you can see peopleās creations from the game still works.
They also share some prototypes the team made during development and there is a free trial of the creature creator.
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i love(d) spore so much
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Get your hurricane news with Old Web Vibez:
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http://www.santacruzgames.com/
website of a defunct game studio that made games until 2010s. a lot of things seem broken but according the the whois domain is still under control of original owners, since create date hasnāt been reset
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āThe embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags.ā
A great example of how HTML errors used to render differently in different browsers.
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Oh, that is just delightful. 10/10
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I love that one! Always makes me smile.
Somewhat related, Iāve been researching blackwork embroidery (and slowly writing a blog post), and a lot of the websites are very old or defunct. One thatās still around but hasnāt been updated in ages is The Blackwork Embroidery Archives.
Created 28 March 1996
Last Updated 21 January 2012
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That really is cool.
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Luckily I donāt need it, and itās wonderful 
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adopt-a-haunt! a little halloween-themed adoptables site from geocities! https://web.archive.org/web/20001006001032fw_/http://wolfofyarn.simplenet.com/halloween/adoptahaunt/home.htm
some of the images are broken, but not all of them!
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I went looking for information about Dublin rhyming slang* today, and found it on two very old websites. The first of the two is one Iāve come across before: The OāByrne Files, a personal website that was evidently award-winning back in the day. Although some of the content is bit cheesy, this site earns huge vintage Irish web points just for the Telecom Ćireann url. How itās still online and mostly intact, I havenāt a notionā¦
*Some Dublin people use rhyming slang in the same way that London people (āCockneysā) use rhyming slang. The motive behind this is unclear.
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ā¦ And the other page was Steven Roy Edwardsā site, which has a whole page about Irish English. The site includes many pages based on the authorās life in Ireland and the Netherlands throughout the 2000s, but has been updated in the 2020s. Almost every sentence has a hyperlink in it in a way that feels very early 2000s to me.
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Oh, this is cute! Iām bagsying the ghostā¦
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today i found ācyber funā; not super cool or extravagant, just a fun site i liked. they have a sanrio graphics collection with pictures of a lot of the funny obscure sanrio characters and their main site layout is cute!
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Oh, this is cute! I especially like the list of Sanrio character birthdays. Sorry I missed your big day, Hello Kittyā¦
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