Internet Artifacts
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·May 13, 2025silisili
al_borland
They actually left the original Space Jam site up. I think the developers knew its importance.
slyall
They managed to break https://www.spacejam.com/ though. It redirects to https://www.spacejamanewlegacy.net/ which has a bad cert and then goes into a redirect loop.
So broken after just 4 years
genewitch
Hey give Disney a break they're a small company with only a few employees. Maybe tbe certifier is on vacation.
yawnxyz
I love how the new Space Jam website is ALSO in the 90's style! https://www.spacejam.com/2021/
dag11
Oh man I forgot all about <frameset> and <frame> tags to create navigation. From the early days before we had dynamic sites or static site generators with templates, we had our browsers do our "templating" for us!
silisili
Nice! Never knew that. I wish more companies with popular sites did this. I'm sure it cost them about no money nor time to just shovel it off like this.
lucyjojo
would be cool for it to be less west/america-centric.
dev-slash-zero
I also would consider Digg to be the direct predecessor of Reddit. If I recall correctly it was more popular until possibly as late as 2010.
pests
> Geocities had an interactive 2D map, allowing users to navigate through these virtual spaces. (1994)
I got online around ~10 years old in ~1998 and got into web dev soon after. I remember using Geocities and Angelfire and FortuneWeb and all that but I do not remember this interactive 2D map. I do remember the various "communities" or neighborhoods but not this. Was it gone by this point or was I just so focused on the free hosting I never noticed?
It took me a long time to realize the web was so new back when I started out, less then a decade old itself. Pretty surreal to see where its gone.
fragmede
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music was updated in 2019. Forever ago in Internet years but more recent than the original.
al_borland
The hours I wasted on that helicopter game. It was the Flappy Bird of its day.
cyberax
I'm disappointed that Bad Apple!! is not there.
pedrogpimenta
I don't think bad apple was that big or important. I have just recently discovered it and I've been surfing since 1996
aaron695
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I'm not sure how younger folks would feel seeing this...perhaps that it's ugly, less useful, sparse. And they'd be a bit right.
But for me this was a hit of pure nostalgia, flipping item to item. Almost like looking through an old photo album of memories you'd forgotten years back. Thanks Neal for putting it together.
Slightly fun fact - the original Space Jam site stayed intact until 2021!
https://web.archive.org/web/20210105185246/https://www.space...