#archive
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Thousands of text files from the BBS era: manuals, rants, stories, phreaking, ASCII art. The pre-web, kept exactly as it was typed.
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Type a URL, pick a year, see the page as it was. The internet's memory. Everything else in this category depends on it.
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The Internet Archive's search engine for GeoCities animated GIFs. Search 'under construction'. Search 'dancing'. Search anything; the results spin.
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GeoCities restored neighborhood by neighborhood: Area51, Heartland, SiliconValley, Tokyo. Browse the way it was meant to be browsed, by street.
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Screenshots of GeoCities pages, one at a time, posted for years. A research project that became a slow, endless slideshow of what people put online first.
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A volunteer mirror of GeoCities pages, saved in 2009 before the lights went out. Navigation still works. Hit counters do not.
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Thousands of industrial, educational and amateur films from the twentieth century, free to watch and reuse. The source of half the stock footage you have ever seen cut into something strange.
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Thousands of DOS games running in the browser on the Archive's emulator. The big cabinet down the street. Scores do not count here; records are set at home.
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Coin-op arcade machines from the seventies to the nineties, emulated in the browser. Bring a keyboard; the joystick is in your head.
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Tracker music by the hundred thousand, from the Amiga era onward: .mod, .xm, .it, .s3m. The soundtrack of every demo and keygen, archived and playable.
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An enormous archive of avant-garde film, sound and writing, kept by one professor with a plain HTML site and no budget since 1996.
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Browse the web as it was in a chosen year, through a proxy built for old computers and old browsers. Point a 1998 machine at it and it works.