Explore the Early Web

Browse our curated collection of preserved websites from the golden age of the internet. Filter by era, platform, or design style.

geocities.com/area51/neon/dreams
★ Welcome to my corner of the web! ★ Best viewed in Netscape Navigator 3.0 ★
⚠️ UNDER CONSTRUCTION ⚠️
You are visitor number: 004821
~ 1996

Neon Dreams Personal Page

A classic GeoCities homepage featuring tiled backgrounds, MIDI autoplay, and a guestbook plugin.

GeoCities HTML 3.2
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www.acmecorp1999.com/index.html
ACME GLOBAL SOLUTIONS
• About Us
• Services
• Contact		Welcome to the future of dot-com excellence. We provide state-of-the-art Y2K compliance.
~ 1999

Acme Global Solutions

Table-based corporate layout with frame navigation, blue gradient headers, and Y2K preparedness messaging.

Corporate Frameset Y2K
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www.webring.org/rings/90smusic
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:: 90s ALTERNATIVE ROCK HUB ::
Sign our guestbook!
Download MP3s (link dead)
~ 1997

Alt-Rock WebRing Hub

Part of a 1,200-site WebRing network. Features black backgrounds, bright green text, and MIDI downloads.

WebRing Music High Contrast
12.8 KB
info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
The World Wide Web project
-------------------------
The World-Wide Web (W3) is a wide-area
hypermedia information retrieval initiative
aiming to give universal access to a large
universe of documents.
~ 1990

CERN Project Homepage

One of the earliest preserved webpages. Plain text, minimal styling, and the birthplace of HTTP/HTML.

Pre-1993 CERN Text-Only
3.1 KB
geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/5672/
★ My Anime Corner ★
[Gallery] [Fanfic] [Links]
Best viewed at 800x600 ♪ ♫ ♪
~ 1998

Anime Fan Sanctuary

Heavy use of Comic Sans, star GIFs, tiled purple backgrounds, and embedded Shockwave movies.

Fan Site GIFs Comic Sans
89.4 KB
www.hotmail.com/welcome.html
FREE E-MAIL
Get your own @hotmail.com address today!
~ 1996

Early Hotmail Signup

Pioneering web-based email interface. Minimal CSS, server-side rendering, and revolutionary async concepts.

Webmail Forms Microsoft
15.6 KB
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