sup /g/, recently i've been doing some internet archaeology through the waybackmachine and wiby and i wanna share all the weird shit i've found. hope you enjoy. feel free to share weird sites you've found as well. originally tried this thread on /b/ and they told me it would last longer here.Meat or Accident?Is it a tasty meaty treat or a pasty bloody corpse? You have to decide on everyones favorite game show, MEAT OR ACCIDENT!https://web.archive.org/web/20040924141138/http://meatoraccident.co.uk/Gothic MIDI ArchiveThe most dark and evil and sorrowful Duran Duran, The Cure, Bauhaus, and other goth bands available in the most disturbingly satanic format of all: the MIDI. They would also seem to have such gems as "Relax," by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The angst! (shockingly, the downloads still work)https://web.archive.org/web/19990219233539/http://idrecords.com/gothmidi/wiggaz.comAn online resource devoted to the classification and understanding of wiggers. Print it out and take it to the mall.https://web.archive.org/web/20051231051253/http://www.wiggaz.com/pics3.htmJapanese Rabbit BalancingBlog of a Japanese man balancing things on his rabbit's head from the years 1994-2003.https://web.archive.org/web/20040207235241/http://www.fsinet.or.jp/~sokaisha/rabbit/rabbit.htm
Cliff Thinks the UnthinkableOn November 30th, 2000, Airliners.net forum user MD-90 posited a question to the users of the Civil Aviation Discussion forum: "What if a Boeing-707 hit the World Trade Center?" Forum users responded in earnest with their theories.https://web.archive.org/web/20020609090607/http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/336291/4/
Reapers of BloodAre you a vampyre? How do you safely feed? What is proper vampyre etiquette? This web site claims to offer help to new vampires, but to me it seems more like a great list of excuses to be pure living failure. To its credit, it is extremely detailed.https://web.archive.org/web/20040101160140/http://www.reapersofblood.org/
Orville the Mouse, World's 1st ElectronautWatch as Orville becomes the very first mouse to achieve flight in an propellantless electrokinetic craft, AKA a sparking monolith of tin foil, sticks and tape.http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/orville/index.htm
Walmartsucks.com's Dirty Laundry PageThe juicy gossip of various Walmarts across the US from '99-2001. Peg's giving the manager lap dances and John's fucking Terry!https://web.archive.org/web/20001205035200/http://www.walmartsucks.com/dirty_laundry.html
>>107020535id do this kinda stuff but just automate it and take screenshots.rather just look through 1000 screenshots and flag interesting ones than manually visit.
Exit MundiA collection of every end-of-the-world scenario. At least we know the Mayans were wrong about 2012.https://web.archive.org/web/20060630053329/http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm
The Mullet Picture Expedition 1998Investigation and identification of the hairstyle also known as the "Neckwarmer" or "Lesbian Neckwarmer." Includes such rare specimens as the "Octopus Mullet."https://web.archive.org/web/19991128200642/http://grove.ufl.edu/~paisita/mullet98.htmBig Dog's Goattee PageA guide to goatees and 312 reasons why you should have one.https://web.archive.org/web/19970806152200/http://www.arches.uga.edu/~simko/goatee.html
Geocities Timothy McVeigh Memorial"Enigmacat" wishes the world could see Timothy McVeigh as the sexually attractive martyr that he was. While he was alive, she felt his pain so deeply that she put up a website to fill with the pain. Then she wrote him letters about it that were also filled with pain. Then he died. Pain ensued.https://web.archive.org/web/20050506210000/http://www.geocities.com/psychodramata_2001/index.html
Adult Hypnotic WishesYou can hire a chainsmoking trans dominatrix called the "Mind Mistress" to feminize you through hypnosis. This place is surprisingly in-tact and full of some insane images. Also includes a 17-part guide on how to suck cockhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050531000036/http://adult.hypnoticwishes.com/hall.shtmlBig ClawzDo you have a Godzilla foot fetish? Have you ever gotten turned on fantasizing about the Bowser's toes? Yeah, well some furry in 2003 obviously did, and they made a whole web site about licking dino feet to prove it. (artwork section is hilarious and mostly in-tact)https://web.archive.org/web/20030207034141/http://ld5.hn.org/members/BigClawz/
Fat Chicks in Party HatsBasically a Fat People Hate thread 20 years earlier. Pretty funny pictures.https://web.archive.org/web/20121017135457/http://fatchicksinpartyhats.com/
>>107020535>wiggaz.comLole, when I saw the subject of the thread I was gonna mention that site. >>107020547I bet they shit bricks when they saw the news a year later. I wonder if they got questioned by any glownigger agency. Seems like such a tragedy was already the subject of morbid curiosity, especially considering the 1993 bombing, so perhaps not.
>>107020955This was very sad. I needed this, thank you.
>>107020627Based Chris Chan.
>>107020986That was a Seanbaby comedy site, come on.
the rabbit one and the fat people one are bretty gewd
>>107021209speaking of, here's chis-chan's first websitehttps://web.archive.org/web/20010526173757/http://sonichuchandler.tripod.com/cwcson.htm
>>107020998>I bet they shit bricks when they saw the news a year later.that's what i've been digging for, really curious what their initial reaction was on the forums>I wonder if they got questioned by any glownigger agency.i wouldn't be surprised. the OP made a really interesting thread on the 1st anniversary which i can't access sadly.
>>107020535https://web.archive.org/web/20020109214136/http://www.twintracker.com/
JoKAwiLd's MySpaceThe MySpace of a stereotypical teen from the 2000's, and victim of the infamous 2008 greyhound bus murder. It gives a nice snapshot of his life. Dude seemed like an absolute chiller but he was also a juggalo so make of that what you will.https://web.archive.org/web/20080810025119/http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=108390479His last blog:https://web.archive.org/web/20080812190227/http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=108390479&blogID=191591870
MyDeathSpaceA catalogue of the profiles of dead MySpace users. Extremely controversial for its time and apparently still active???https://web.archive.org/web/20070501215334/http://mydeathspace.com/article-list.aspx>>107021163let me post some more sad stuff then
>>107024279Few juggalos I know IRL are generally p. chill.
KlerckisdeadWebsite commemorating an early 2000's internet troll who ran an infamous shock site and started a hoax campaign to get LOTR: The Two Towers' name changed after 9/11. Trying to find any info left on this guy through the aether 20+ years later was pretty interesting, he had an entry on Encyclopedia Dramatica and a YTMND page. I'd like to learn more about him.https://web.archive.org/web/20060402223004/http://klerckisdead.com/https://klerck.ytmnd.com/
Vortex Rider of the WebA father mourns his web-surfing son, the Vortex Rider, and goes into vague detail about the mysterious circumstances of his death. Many photos are provided as he describes his son's incoherent theories about "electro-paranoid syndrome" and metaphysical black holes.https://web.archive.org/web/20040605032032/http://www.globelectron.com/home.htmlHere's the weirdest part of this site: the Virtualia Archipel, where photos of his "son" are edited over strange backdrops. I have no idea what this is about.https://web.archive.org/web/20040715123041/http://www.globelectron.com/vrarchipel.html
Subliminal Messages in Windows 95Somebody's spent too much time staring at the startup screen for Win95. He also thinks the anti-piracy hologram on the CDs are the mark of the beast. Maybe this guy was ahead of his time?https://web.archive.org/web/20060427142936/http://www.pcbuyersguide.com/software/system/Win95-subliminals.htmlEthericfire.com$45.00 for reptoid repellant? Now that's a steal! A full-on paranoid thinks that U.S. Navy reptilian cloud-demons and random people he encounters are part of some huge alien/mystical conspiracy. A particularly poignant touch is that he occasionally mentions that he's raised his kids to spot reptilian shapeshifters as well...https://web.archive.org/web/20041118065208/http://www.ethericfire.com/700 Shuttles to End War on EarthGreg Buell is a poet, an inventor, a lover, and also an absolute foaming raving lunatic. Seems like there's far too much of this for it to be a joke. Schizo ramblings on the 2000's internets, what's not to love?https://web.archive.org/web/20040606162508/http://www.inventor-warp-speed.com/The Web FairyEarly 9/11 conspiracy site, the “memorial” mind-boggling. There was no plane but a missile disguised with a hologram! https://web.archive.org/web/20060425150832/http://www.thewebfairy.com/911/index.htmhttps://web.archive.org/web/20060323053851fw_/http://thewebfairy.com/911/bluebeam/index.htm
Butt CandleThe benefits of hovering your rectum above a lit candle. Or do you insert it? The instructions are unclear. The fact this survived long enough to get a corporate minimalist retouching in 2012 that evaporated its web 1.0 soul really makes me question if this was a troll or not.https://web.archive.org/web/20040623060959/http://buttcandle.com/
>>107020986we used to crack up reading this.it is Seanbaby, but I think it's his first thing?
IIRC this site was shared on /co/ or /g/ for lulz like a decade agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20140727141235/https://superior-web-solutions.com/Loads of swf content from a corporation trying to be hip. My fave:https://superior-web-solutions.com/Broadband/Cartoons/streets/streets.html
>>107025643fuck forgot to waybackify the 2nd linkhttps://web.archive.org/web/20140727141231/https://superior-web-solutions.com/Broadband/Cartoons/streets/streets.html
>>107025653Pretty rude of the guy to walk between the prostitute and her client right when he's about to give her money.
Best thread on the board right nos. Thank you Anon.
useful tool for pulling down everything wayback has on modestly-sized sites:https://github.com/StrawberryMaster/wayback-machine-downloader
digging though my old wayback bookmarks, I found "the" angry beavers fanhttps://web.archive.org/web/20170717231111/http://johnofe.com/obsession/index.html
>>107020535>wiggaz.comgood one
Tourette Syndrome Association response to south park episodehttps://web.archive.org/web/20071011195239/http://www.tsa-usa.org/news/1007responseTSA_SouthParkTourettes.htmlNSA using furries to corrupt our youthhttps://web.archive.org/web/20160214033848/https://www.nsa.gov/kids/home.shtmlsite made for that one KOTH episodehttp://web.archive.org/web/20000622072319/http://www.peggysfeet.com/spanking2.htmmooohttp://web.archive.org/web/20100125164357/http://www.4hearingloss.com/archives/2005/12/copulating_deaf.html
>>107023569>really curious what their initial reaction was on the forumshttps://web.archive.org/web/20020704074200/http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/568411/
>>107029160Well that was a trip to read over. I wish I had kept my IRC logs, it was a very strange day.
>>107020554>Razor The TormentedHoly fuck I miss these days of the internet
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thanks for keeping the thread up bros, as a reward here's some of the sources i've been using to find these. if you find something weird plz contribute.Portal of Evil (check "Archives)A web directory of "evil" sites of the web 1.0 era. Each site listing had its own forum attached, where PoE users could discuss and ridicule said "Evil" site. The most important site rule on PoE was called the Prime Directive. It stated that users were only allowed to engage with the site from the PoE forums. They were not to e-mail the site owners, harass them or post in their guestbooks. The site owner was free to register and argue with the PoE users, but that was it. Some of them, such as Ulililia (this is the site that discovered him), ended up making friends with the users and became regulars on the forums. Sites and their owners were referred to as "exhibits". I think this place probably contributed a lot to lolcow internet culture.https://web.archive.org/web/20050715013115/http://www.portalofevil.com/index.htmlCruel.com's Cruel Site of the DayI'm certain most oldfags know of this place. The Cruelest websites of the net posted daily from '96 to '05 for your morbid pleasure. There's a couple links here you're better off not clicking.https://web.archive.org/web/20000815054037/http://www.cruel.com/WibyA search engine that only indexes websites that don't use javascript.https://wiby.me/
>>107020684>not browsing web 1.0 sites while listening to nu metal and europop classics>>107025643won't load past enter for me. is this what zombo.com was parodying?>>107025888nice, always feel anxiety that the waybackmachine might not exist soon while i'm browsing these sites. btw are you guys having any issues with ruffle not loading stuff?>>107028109i miss when a south park episode dropping could cause widespread fear of bullying among busybodies. also holy shit that KOTH page, they must've seen some weird shit to be on the pulse that early.
>>107029160>>107029346great fucking find. i'm absolutely fascinated by live reactions to 9/11 online, it's really been glossed over compared to other aspects of the day. if you have anymore from other sites i'd love to see. here's some of my 9/11 related finds.Blow Up Uncle SamA Newgrounds game full of creative methods to 'splode Uncle Sam -- uploaded 6 days before 9/11. Needless to say, reactions were mixed. Poor guy got guilt-tripped into making an Osama version then never uploaded again.https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/30648The Face of Evil"The face of Satan seems to eerily appear in the smoke billowing from the blasted World Trade Center buildings in New York," reports the Philly Daily News. "What do you see in the photo?" Perhaps I am putting my eternal soul at risk here, but I see Jeremy Irons.https://web.archive.org/web/20010917012256/http://dailynews.philly.com/content/daily_news/2001/09/13/local/DEVI13C.htm9/11 Porn Memorial PagesEarly 2000's porn stars mourning 9/11 the only way they know how: slowly stripping themselves over poorly-written dialogue. I guess this was trendy.https://web.archive.org/web/20020605095847/http://www.ericawebb.com/091601/https://web.archive.org/web/20021005073231/http://www.hollymoss.com/hm64/September 11 Coincidences9/11 and numerology autism leads to the most far fetched September Eleventh "coincidences" possible. We need to investigate the 9/11-Oceans Eleven connection!https://web.archive.org/web/20040211093439/http://www.september11news.com/Mysteries2.htm
9/11 Flash GamesWar On Terrorismhttps://web.archive.org/web/20100825043052/http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/40095Shoot the Taliban before storming Osama Bin Laden's cave hideout and beating the shit out of him.Osamagotchihttps://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/80613Your own pet Osama to torture and care for.Bin Blasterhttps://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/35077Forget dead or alive! Blow Osama's rotten head clean off his body!Torture Osama CIA Stylehttps://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/31517That white guy with the blonde beard and the green baseball cap is Bin Laden, apparently. Give the guy a break, he kinda had to rush this one out.Vegeta's 9/11 Strip-downhttps://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/31448MaxinePwers wasn't about to let the terrible tragedy of 9/11 stop her from tearing off Vegeta's clothes 2 days after the fact.
>>107030335>won't load past enter for mefor me, the archive doesn't seem to be properly converting the urls embedded in the swf's and so it keeps trying to redirect to "live" pages that no longer exist, forcing you to keep copying urls to web.archive.org to continue browsing. e.g.https://web.archive.org/web/20080313213733/https://superior-web-solutions.com/Broadband/Introduction/Introduction.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20080313211224/https://superior-web-solutions.com/Broadband/Home/Home.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20100325193658/https://superior-web-solutions.com/Broadband/Video/video.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20100325193734/https://superior-web-solutions.com/Broadband/Video/videomaker/psycho.htmlYou can also use >>107025888to grab the entire site and then search the output dir to find swf's to put in a standalone flash player
Campaign for a Female Boba FettBack when Boba Fett's identity was a complete mystery, a Star Wars fan proposes a theory that the bounty hunter is actually a woman. "Fett is the ideal candidate for the ground-breaking, balls-to-the-wall female character that the Star Wars audience deserves" Also, "Woman Warrior in Drag of the Week," and a discussion of how Boba Fett walks like a woman already.https://web.archive.org/web/20030604092200/http://www.hostmaker.com/femalefett/
>>107030720They got rid of these? When?
this isnt technically old web exploration, but someone posted this here like 6 months ago. its like "im feeling lucky" for web 1 websiteshttps://wiby.me/surprise
>>107020535i am enjoying this OP, ty. here is a fun page / program that was useful back in the dialup days especially:https://www.proxomitron.info/the site also serves as a memorial to the author. i used this program back then to filter the ads and bullshit of the early internet. the registration / licensing process is hilarious and representative of the playful nature of the early web in general.
fuxk don't let this gold 404
>>107025643Ay reminded me of Blueworldhttp://www.blueworldcartoons.com/Index.html
>>107030335>always feel anxiety that the waybackmachine might not exist soonI've seen at least one case where archive.org removed hundreds of archived webpages of weight gain erotic literature because dimensionsmagazine had a monetization stick up their ass and successfully did a DMCA or someshit, despite all the content being free to browse in 2004.
Murderer Liam Youen's Stalking SiteOn october 15th, 1999, 20 year old Amy Boyer left her job at a dental office unaware of the danger waiting for her in the parking lot. As she walked to her car a former highschool classmate, Liam Youens, ambushed her with a handgun, fatally shooting her before turning the gun on himself. In the aftermath of this murder suicide, Amy's loved ones & the community at large were left in shock and grief. But what made this case far more harrowing was the discovery of a website created by Liam: an online diary of obsession and violent intent. He tracked Amy's movements day-to-day, even writing the exact date he planned to act on his fantasies. Unfortunately, the site had little to no visitors and no one intervened. Liam and Amy had only met once as eigth graders.https://web.archive.org/web/20010302124130/www.amyboyer.org/liamsite.htm
Long Haired Men and the Women Who Love ThemA dating website for women with a fetish for long-haired men.https://web.archive.org/web/20030425050131/http://www.longhairedmen.com/Big GulpVore fetish erotica combined with that lonely 90's internet feel up the creep factor here by 100. As amusing as stories about truckers devouring hitch-hikers and pizza guys being eaten by their customers is, the picture gallery is the true pièce de résistance here. I recommend starting with Page 1 of Male Swallowing Male.https://web.archive.org/web/19990221232037/http://casti.com/big-gulp/main.html
Big Bad Wolf's Fursuit PageThe Big Bad Wolf shows the detailed process by which he constructs elaborate, disturbing fur suits. Fur suits sure have come a long way. (almost all the images still work here, pretty cool)https://web.archive.org/web/20030420203857/http://www.furnation.com/Big_Bad_Wolf/Slade's Realdoll RepairsMeet Slade, a strange fellow with a penchant for 'fixing' other men's broken spooge receptacles. Check out the "surgery" section. Very eery atmosphere to this site.https://web.archive.org/web/20030622114606/http://www.sladesworld.com/dollindex.htmlSkull-Fucking GuideEverything you've ever wanted to know about skullfucking or "squicking" as it's called, including tips for proper skullfucking technique. Even has skullfucking erotica. I don't think this was a joke.https://web.archive.org/web/20011018105346/http://www.mich.com/~pnsnv/othershit/squick.html
BicepmaniaGregg Valentino shows off his roided up arms. Not sure I'm buying the last pictures of him "natty".https://web.archive.org/web/20030207033701/http://www.bicepmania.net/index.cfm?pageID=16T-Nation Bodybuilding ForumI'm having trouble getting most of this site to load, but the homepage is so absolutely full of web design soul that I had to post it.https://web.archive.org/web/20051215065617/http://www.t-nation.com/
Cybergata CentralA personal site run by a woman named Nancy who loves her husband and her cats. Made in 1994 and still up to this day.https://cybergata.com/Emma's Elder Scrolls SiteAn Elder Scrolls modding site that hasn't been updated since 2005 (AKA pre-Oblivion). One of the modders, Grumpy, passed away in 2005 and is immortalized in a memorial on the site.https://emma-n-grumpy.rethan-manor.net/A Survival Guide for a Zombie WorldThere'll come a day when you'll wish you'd printed this out. I think we can all remember passing countless hours in junior high planning what we;d loot, where we'd live and who we'd kill when the dead started walking the earth.https://web.archive.org/web/20011219222225/http://www.zombiejuice.com/zsurvival/index.html
i'll be away from the PC for a while now, hopefully the thread continues. if not, thanks for replying and hope you guys enjoyed all this weird shit i've compiled.
>>107020535>wibyJust checked and the site I submitted last time I was there got listed.
https://www.symbolics.com/
>>107020535some old /b/ archives?
>>107037326hmm
I think it's a bit strange that despite at least 1% of the general population and lets be honest 10% of the internet population are pedophiles yet there is basically 0 clearnet archival
>>107039405did they meet once as eight graders or were they highschool classmates?
not archive.org but in a similar vein, here's an amusing clip I found in the bowels of old youtube of some family testing out their new webcam.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dN8dGzulrQFor finding old soul, it helps to use search terms like "windows movie maker", "webcam avi", "DSC_0001", and of course the youtube date filter operator "before:2014"
https://www.youtube.com/@preetypop17/videos>>107046878I found this girl I used to watch whenever she uploaded. Man how time flies
>>107040562>T-Nation has closed downfuck me i am old.
>>107046962>16 years agofuck me i am old.
Amazing thread.>>107030720A teacher bitched at me because I was playing one of those punch the politician games in class. I didn't know the difference between any of the politicians at the time but I remember the teacher being really snappy and upset so it must have been someone they liked.
Cool thread. Thanks
https://wiby.me/ has a selection of curated old sites, you won't be finding anything out of the normal and I don't think the selection is that large but still it's worth checking out.
a while back someone here shared a 4chan archive link that had incorporated datasets back to at least 2010. i can't recall the domain name, so i'm wondering if anyone here does.
>>107051354nvm found it. grep comes to my rescue yet again.https://old.sage.moe/
>>107049529>>107034499way ahead of you, these are all the sources i'm using to find this stuff >>107030173 feel free to contribute>>107045001my bad. probably didn't meet only once but they had limited interaction from eighth grade to high school. anyways, the site is a forgotten piece of columbine's legacy that i'd never heard of until recently.>>107043265how old we talking? the ones we have from the 2000's are all pretty limited. here's a couple downloads which i haven't looked at yet, the history behind /b/ archival is pretty neat i also have an article if you wanna read lmk2004-2008https://archive.org/details/studionyami-com_penfifteen-2012-03-052009https://archive.org/details/4chan_threads_archive_10_billion
>>107051391woah, they got threads as far back as 2006. thanks anon. >>107047260there are youtube vids turning 20 years old this year>>107024669this guy had his own wikipedia page for a bithttps://web.archive.org/web/20050502000634/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klerckalso here's his liverjournal suicide note that was so unserious people though he was trollinghttps://web.archive.org/web/20050313043549/www.livejournal.com/users/klerck/30167.html
This thread is gold, it makes me realize that
