GifCities(gifcities.org)
65 points by augury | 12 comments
GifCities is the Internet Archive's search engine for animated GIFs from archived GeoCities pages; the capture showed a rate-limit error.
#web-history on Hacker News
8 stories tagged web-history, newest first.
Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades(debugbear.com)
338 points by jgx0 | 229 comments
A DebugBear blog post examining the recent redesign of example.com, the IANA-reserved documentation domain, and the history of its visual appearance over 20+ years.
The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now(stephendiehl.com)
347 points by ibobev | 228 comments
Stephen Diehl blog essay arguing the modern internet has become predatory compared with the amateur, non-commercial web of the 1990s.
Cartoon Network Flash Games(webdesignmuseum.org)
397 points by willmeyers | 121 comments
A Web Design Museum exhibition page collecting playable Cartoon Network Flash browser games such as Scooby Snapshot and The Riddler's Secret Identity Inventor.
Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes(retool.com)
328 points by type0 | 99 comments
A long-form illustrated feature by Glenn Fleishman, published by Retool, on the history of Yahoo Pipes, the visual data-mashup tool.
Netscape Meteors(erynwells.me)
369 points by ingve | 108 comments
A personal blog post recounting a search for the original 60×60 pixel Netscape Navigator "meteors" throbber animation.
Fark redesign is now live (2007)(fark.com)
399 points by MrThoughtful | 412 comments
A 2007 Fark.com comment thread announcing the site's redesign going live, with about 3,780 user comments.
Come back, c2.com, we still need you(wiki.c2.com)
325 points by joshuanapoli | 131 comments
The c2.com WikiWikiWeb, Ward Cunningham's original wiki, currently returning a "page does not exist" message instead of content.