I only read the entry for 1984 which is an interesting – and likely embellished – look into 1980s hacker culture.
One thing I’ve noticed about GenX when they write about themselves on their personal home pages: they’re more likely to do it in narrative form than later generations. These are more like articles and less like posts. Posts hadn’t been invented yet.
Dr. Tichenor’s Antiseptic Mouthwash
This website hasn’t changed since 2011. This product was a staple of my childhood. I’d spend summers with family who lived on the Mississippi coast and get eaten alive by mosquitoes. The family always had a bottle of Dr. Tichenor’s in the medicine cabinet and swore by it.
www. burger .com (cant put in links??) is my favorite. its run by a lawyer named Donald Ray Burger, and im pretty sure it’s a blog. its updated semi-regularly, but took a long break from 2023 to now. it got updated in january tho. page was put up on july 4th 1996, and looks like its from 1996.
Love it! I like the look but I also like how he’s mixed personal and professional. The Wayback Machine save from 1998 (earliest one they have) looks the same as today’s website.
One of my favourite websites is Roadside America. We rarely go anywhere without taking a look at the odd and quirky places to visit.
We’ve just got back from a trip through Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. One of the highlights and one my wife didn’t think was stupid and boring was the Pink Elephant at DeForest, Wisconsin.
She wasn’t at all impressed with the world’s largest square knot at Hudson, Illinois; the Yellow Moose or the mouse with cheese at Black River Falls or the Dead Mailmen Haunted Castle at Elk Mound, both in Wisconsin or anywhere else we visited, but she loved the Pink Elephant.
Homosassa Springs has a ginormous manatee statue. Wonder if it’s listed on Roadside America.
Edit: apparently it’s not listed, but real manatees are. :)
Gay History and Literature last updated today, appears to be from 2002 (earliest date I could find, but I didn’t search every page) and looks it!
Lots of essays about gay History by historian Rictor Norton, a gay man born in 1945!
seems mostly untouched since 2001. still has references to co.yu across the website
I came across this Jim Carrey fansite which started in '96 and still has a cool mid-00s web design. The latest news update was at the end of July this year so it’s still getting updated and everything.
Wayne’s Word is a static, purely informative, html website about biological topics from my 40 year teaching career in the Life Science Dept. at Palomar College. It is an “Online Textbook of Natural History” containing over 1600 html files and 14,000 images. It was hand-coded using a source code editor called Arachnophilia written in Java by Paul Lutus. W.P. Armstrong, 17 Dec. 2022.
fantastic site full of information and a wonderful example of 90s-style website design!
Here’s one that I ran into while scraping a new entry for my old link project - surprised to see it’s still out there. This was a project in the early 2000s, I believe it started with students doing questionnaires in the street, telling people that dihydrogen monoxide kills millions of people a year and asking them if they would sign their petition for a ban - and people did sign it because of the scary chemical-sounding name. It became a bit of an in-joke among people who were being pretty funny but also maybe thought a little too much of their own intellect. And it’s still out there! T-shirts out of stock, alas.
this accidentally started a cheese thread in a discord server i am in. thank you!
