Antique websites

[MrBen]

Now we are a good 15 years in, I had this thought on the bus this morning. Will there become such a thing as vintage /antique websites? Will there be web archaeologists in years to come whose job is to retrieve quirky historical data reflective of its time?

Just coming across random early sites like this got me all nostalgic:

http://quantumplate.com/

(I have no idea what this business is or was, and it's reason for existence has become lost in cyberspace)

[StraferJack]

the Warner Bros movie Space Jam from the 90s has famously (?) kept it's website as was

It's like travelling back in time

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

[Chillaxed]

I quite like the simplicity of those sites compared with the all-action sites these days. It annoys me when I want to read a simple news story, for example, and have to negotiate the various pop-ups, videos, ads, etc that accompany the story.

Time to check out retirement home options I think.

[the-e-dealer]

You can already travel back in time !! http://archive.org/web/web.php

The BBC Site looks a lot cheaper! http://web.archive.org/web/19970721211707/http://www0.bbc.co.uk/

[MrBen]

It's 1997 and you've decided to open an online supermarket in Norway. Check out the clean lines on this sucker...

http://arngren.net/

[StraferJack]

Oh that is rather good mr b

[El Pibe]

http://www.tvgohome.com/

(actually blocked at work so not sure if it still works)

[El Pibe]

wow Mr Ben, frames!!!

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Thats the Borg Fila Setanta 76 trackie top(in Kelly green) of websites. I like it.

MrBen Wrote:

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> It's 1997 and you've decided to open an online

> supermarket in Norway. Check out the clean lines

> on this sucker...

>

> http://arngren.net/

[Lowlander]

Given the way o2 broadband is tonight, you even get that 56k modem experience!

Great links to the old bbc websites. Anyone remember b boards from the lat 80s early 90s-all text based as i remember?