1996 Archive

The year the web found its voice. JavaScript debut, DHTML experiments, and the rise of personal homepages.

Pages Captured

842,391

Avg. Page Size

14.2 KB

Tech Stack

HTML 2.0/3.0

Browser Era

Netscape 2.0

🔍

★ Welcome to My Home ★
[ Netscape Now! ]
█ Under Construction

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Hub/1996/home.html

HTML Table GIF

Oct 12, 1996

►► Cool Links ◄◄
[ WebRing ▼ ]
Sign My Guestbook!

http://members.tripod.com/~CyberFan96/index.html

CGI Frames MIDI

Mar 04, 1996

◆ INFO CENTER ◆
Best viewed in 800x600
You are visitor #00842

http://www.oldsite.edu/research/1996/report.html

HTML 3.0 Table PNG

Jul 19, 1996

▓▓▓ Y2K READY ▓▓▓
[ Java Applet Test ]
Email: webmaster@net

http://www.business96.com/products/launch.html

JavaScript Java Table

Nov 22, 1996

★ MIDI PLAYLIST ★
[ Click to Play ]
♫ Background Music ♫

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/4421/music.html

HTML MIDI Plain

Jan 08, 1996

◆ FORUM INDEX ◆
[ New Threads ▼ ]
[ Registration Open ]

http://www.earlyweb.org/cgi-bin/boards.pl?board=tech

Perl/CGI Table TXT

Sep 30, 1996

archive-crawler-1996.log

[1996-01-01 00:00:01] init crawl --year 1996 --depth 3

[1996-01-01 00:00:04] [OK] Resolving host lists... 14,203 domains queued

[1996-03-14 08:22:11] [OK] Captured Netscape 2.0 beta release announcement

[1996-05-22 14:05:33] [WARN] 404 on /cgi-bin/counter.pl (deprecated Perl module)

[1996-08-09 11:18:42] [OK] Java applet sandbox detected, rendering with legacy JRE 1.0.2

[1996-10-30 19:44:09] [OK] GeoCities block snapshot complete. 842,391 pages archived.

[1996-12-31 23:59:59] sync --finalize 1996 [OK] Year archive sealed.